Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:21:59 +0300 | From | Vladislav Bolkhovitin <> | Subject | Re: Integration of SCST in the mainstream Linux kernel |
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Jeff Garzik wrote: >>> iSCSI is way, way too complicated. >> >> I fully agree. From one side, all that complexity is unavoidable for >> case of multiple connections per session, but for the regular case of >> one connection per session it must be a lot simpler. > > Actually, think about those multiple connections... we already had to > implement fast-failover (and load bal) SCSI multi-pathing at a higher > level. IMO that portion of the protocol is redundant: You need the > same capability elsewhere in the OS _anyway_, if you are to support > multi-pathing.
I'm thinking about MC/S as about a way to improve performance using several physical links. There's no other way, except MC/S, to keep commands processing order in that case. So, it's really valuable property of iSCSI, although with a limited application.
Vlad
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