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Message-ID: <4D121900.2000404@vlnb.net>
Date:	Wed, 22 Dec 2010 18:28:00 +0300
From:	Vladislav Bolkhovitin <vst@...b.net>
To:	chetan loke <loke.chetan@...il.com>
CC:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...e.de>,
	"Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@...ux-iscsi.org>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	"Patil, Kiran" <kiran.patil@...el.com>,
	Mike Christie <michaelc@...wisc.edu>,
	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>,
	Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com>,
	Joe Eykholt <jeykholt@...co.com>, "J.H." <warthog9@...nel.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] TCM/LIO v4.0.0-rc6 for 2.6.37-rc6

chetan loke, on 12/18/2010 10:13 PM wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Vladislav Bolkhovitin <vst@...b.net> wrote:
>>
>> In this regard it looks to be a good idea to freeze accepting both LIO
>> and SCST until the end of the next year and then choose one with the
>> biggest activity in the related mailing lists, not counting me and
>> NicholasB.
> 
> Why wait till the end of the next year? What I proposed earlier was
> 'to review at the architecture level'. If folks don't agree to it then
> this email drama will never
> stop. Once the review starts we can decide on a common baseline to
> benchmark both the stacks. I'm more than willing to test/benchmark
> ESX(front-end)/SCST/LIO(back-end) combo. I'm sure there will be others
> who would be willing to spend some of their time for this cause to
> validate claims made by both the communities. We can then publish all
> the results so that others can reproduce them.

This will be exactly what we need: an open and fair comparison. But the
problem is that James doesn't want any comparisons. He doesn't consider
them important. Only personality of the code submitter is important for
James.

Vlad
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