Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754596AbYGLHxB (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:53:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752205AbYGLHww (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:52:52 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.159]:17831 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752098AbYGLHwv (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:52:51 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=enj2scHrNEOUQpI8Z1eHVKhFNizB4kFjTCJCRC5Vu5/t0/byUEbsAmm+HRiavIsTK0 9AoqD3vqagbzEl5u/sSsAKipw6Z/r9ZZNG/snsVH5Yer1opXFgxZNk5irdm9XIryK/Ot i3oUafauAkLeExgddW7+Th6Sc3HAMKnUU5p0c= Message-ID: Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:52:47 +0200 From: "Bart Van Assche" To: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" Subject: Re: [Scst-devel] [ANNOUNCE]: Generic SCSI Target Mid-level For Linux (followup) Cc: "Vladislav Bolkhovitin" , "Andrew Morton" , "Rafiu Fakunle" , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, "Jeff Garzik" , "David Miller" , "Mike Mazarick" , "Leonid Grossman" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Pete Wyckoff" , "Ross S. W. Walker" , scst-devel , "Ted Ts'o" , "H. Peter Anvin" , "Jerome Martin" , "Christoph Hellwig" , "Linux-iSCSI.org Target Dev" In-Reply-To: <1215833281.13668.94.camel@haakon2.linux-iscsi.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4873BCA5.10103@vlnb.net> <1215551354.3977.6.camel@haakon2.linux-iscsi.org> <48749EB2.1070902@vlnb.net> <1215632043.9339.89.camel@haakon2.linux-iscsi.org> <48765433.70604@vlnb.net> <1215725167.31245.104.camel@haakon2.linux-iscsi.org> <4877A948.6090507@vlnb.net> <1215833281.13668.94.camel@haakon2.linux-iscsi.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 831 Lines: 18 On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 5:28 AM, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: > Using MC/S with a modern iSCSI implementation to take advantage of lots > of cores and hardware threads is something that allows one to multiplex > across multiple vendor's NIC ports, with the least possible overhead, in > the OS INDEPENDENT manner. Why do you emphasize MC/S so much ? Any datacenter operator that has the choice between MC/S and using a faster network technology will choose the last IMHO. It's much more convenient to use e.g. 10 GbE instead of multiple 1 GbE connections. Bart. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/