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Message-ID: <adaws4iod8k.fsf@cisco.com>
Date:	Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:12:43 -0700
From:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
To:	Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>
Cc:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...e.de>, akataria@...are.com,
	Robert Love <robert.w.love@...el.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	Mike Christie <michaelc@...wisc.edu>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...are.com>,
	Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@...tec.de>,
	Maxime Austruy <maustruy@...are.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SCSI driver for VMware's virtual HBA.

 > - Reuse the existing SRP initiator (ib_srp). Currently there are two
 > SRP initiators present in the Linux kernel -- one that uses the RDMA
 > verbs API (ib_srp) and one that only works with IBM's i/pSeries
 > hypervisor (ibmvscsi).

This would be sane, although the difference in management APIs etc made
this seem like quite a bit of work when I looked at it (hence the
existence of both ibmvscsi and ib_srp).

 > - Reuse the ib_ipoib kernel module to provide an IP stack on top of
 > the new RDMA driver instead of having to maintain a separate network
 > driver for this hardware (ibmveth).

I don't think this really makes sense, because IPoIB is not really
handling ethernet (it is a different L2 ethernet encapsulation), and I
think the commonality with ibmveth is going to be minimal.

I'm not really sure we should be trying to force drivers to share just
because they are paravirtualized -- if there is real commonality, then
sure put it in common code, but different hypervisors are probably as
different as different hardware.

 - R.
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