linux-kernel - Re: [Scst-devel] [ANNOUNCE]: Generic SCSI Target Mid-level For Linux (followup)

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Date:	Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:52:47 +0200
From:	"Bart Van Assche" <bart.vanassche@...il.com>
To:	"Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@...ux-iscsi.org>
Cc:	"Vladislav Bolkhovitin" <vst@...b.net>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...l.org>,
	"Rafiu Fakunle" <rafiu@...nfiler.com>, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	"Jeff Garzik" <jeff@...zik.org>,
	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"Mike Mazarick" <mazarick@...lsouth.net>,
	"Leonid Grossman" <leonid.grossman@...erion.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Pete Wyckoff" <pw@....edu>,
	"Ross S. W. Walker" <rwalker@...allion.com>,
	scst-devel <scst-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	"Ted Ts'o" <tytso@...nk.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"Jerome Martin" <tramjoe.merin@...il.com>,
	"Christoph Hellwig" <hch@....de>,
	"Linux-iSCSI.org Target Dev" 
	<linux-iscsi-target-dev@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [Scst-devel] [ANNOUNCE]: Generic SCSI Target Mid-level For Linux (followup)

On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 5:28 AM, Nicholas A. Bellinger
<nab@...ux-iscsi.org> 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.
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