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SubjectRe: [ANNOUNCE 0/6] Open-iSCSI High-Performance Initiator for Linux
Matt Mackall wrote:

>On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 09:51:39PM -0800, Alex Aizman wrote:
>
>
>>Matt Mackall wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>How big is the userspace client?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>Hmm.. x86 executable? source?
>>
>>Anyway, there's about 12,000 lines of user space code, and growing. In
>>the kernel we have approx. 3,300 lines.
>>
>>
>>
>>>>- 450MB/sec Read on a single connection (2-way 2.4Ghz Opteron, 64KB block
>>>>size);
>>>>
>>>>
>>>With what network hardware and drives, please?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>Neterion's 10GbE adapters. RAM disk on the target side.
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>>
>
>Ahh.
>
>Snipped my question about userspace deadlocks - that was the important
>one. It is in fact why the sfnet one is written as it is - it
>originally had a userspace component and turned out to be easy to
>deadlock under load because of it.
>
>
>
There's (or at least was up until today) an ongoing discussion on our
mailing list at http://groups-beta.google.com/group/open-iscsi. The
short and long of it: the problem can be solved, and it will. Couple
simple things we already do: mlockall() to keep the daemon un-swapped,
and also looking into potential dependency created by syslog (there's
one for 2.4 kernel, not sure if this is an issue for 2.6).

The sfnet is a learning experience; it is by no means a proof that it
cannot be done.

Alex
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