Re: [Scst-devel] Integration of SCST in the mainstream Linux kernel

2008-02-05 Thread Ming Zhang
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Re: [Stgt-devel] Question about the basic concept of SCSI layer and Block layer

2007-05-23 Thread Ming Zhang
On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 21:55 +0800, jidong xiao wrote: Hi,All, I have a question, what's the relationship between SCSI layer and Block layer?I remember initially there are three types of device drivers, say, char device driver, block device driver, network device driver, so there is a

Re: hwo to adjust interrupt?

2005-08-15 Thread Ming Zhang
ic. thanks a lot for explanation. so these are level sensitive interrupt. i need to find a hw book now... Ming On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 11:47 -0700, Bryan Henderson wrote: so it is possible that both card raise intr quicker than isr run, then both isr will do mmio and go ahead, but then what is

Re: hwo to adjust interrupt?

2005-08-12 Thread Ming Zhang
i tried to remove the SA_SHIRQ option when request_irq(), unfortunately it seems that the IO-APIC will only try to allocate same # to it and once that slot is used, the request_irq will fail. ming On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 10:35 -0700, Bryan Henderson wrote: How much extra work does Linux have to

Re: hwo to adjust interrupt?

2005-08-12 Thread Ming Zhang
On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 20:14 +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 03:05:51PM -0400, Ming Zhang wrote: i tried to remove the SA_SHIRQ option when request_irq(), unfortunately it seems that the IO-APIC will only try to allocate same # to it and once that slot is used

hwo to adjust interrupt?

2005-08-11 Thread Ming Zhang
I have this eth1 and aic7xxx share 1 interrupt thus have impact on performance, anyway i can change it? thx! [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 CPU1 0: 378525 402791IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 38 26IO-APIC-edge i8042 4:

Re: SAI_READ_CAPACITY_16?

2005-04-06 Thread Ming Zhang
we tested several iSCSI initiator/target combinations that work with 2TB devices in current 2.6.11.x kernel. our experience is that some code only support cdb len 10 or 12. you need 16. Ming On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 12:00, Salyzyn, Mark wrote: Troubled spoofing back 2TB support in the aacraid

Re: [ANNOUNCE] iSCSI enterprise target software

2005-03-02 Thread Ming Zhang
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 13:20, Bryan Henderson wrote: u are talking about application aware caching/prefetching stuff. but i prefer to modifying kernel page cache a little bit while make use of most of the code there. That's a powerful argument for using the page cache, and further, for

Re: [Iscsitarget-devel] Re: [ANNOUNCE] iSCSI enterprise target software

2005-03-01 Thread Ming Zhang
On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 14:01, Vikas Aggarwal wrote: And If future IET be visioned as an Enterprise Class Array(Multiple Host-Side Adapters ie., FAs + Multiple Device Side Adapters ie., DAs), should better be in direct control of all the system-resources without being pushed out the kernel.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] iSCSI enterprise target software

2005-03-01 Thread Ming Zhang
On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 16:04, Bryan Henderson wrote: it is hard to beat linux kernel [page] cache performance though. It's quite easy to beat it for particular applications. You can use special knowledge about the workload to drop pages that won't be accessed soon in favor of pages that

RE: IP/ethernet/networking-over-SCSI.

2005-01-25 Thread Ming Zhang
On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 15:16, Guy wrote: Great! Now you can have ISCSI over SCSI! :) u can have iscsi over scsi over iscsi! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 2:07 PM To: Stephen