Status of iSER support.

[David Schweizer]

Hello Peter,

On 5/12/20 8:33 AM, Peter Krempa wrote:
> Well, you certainly can contribute in having them merged. Even testing
> is a contribution.
> [..]
> Well, for us that means that we don't have anybody willing to give input
> on the feature. I don't have experience nor hardware for testing it [..].

I also have only one capable host left, but no counterpart to test with.
Other hardware is either running in production environment or reserved
for emergencies.

> Depends on the status of the patches. I've reviewed them yesterday and I
> don't agree with the design. If you have more knowledge of how those
> things work, even explaining them is a contribution to possbily adding
> the feature.

I mean it is kind of tricky to implement, since iSER sits somewhat
between the iSCSI protocol and different transport methods. Maybe
implementing it as its own protocol capable of communicating over
different transport methods (RoCE, Infiniband, etc. (NOT: RDMA)) is the
way to go.

I think the author simply tried to adapt it to the implementation in
qemu as best as he could to avoid self inflicting head wounds with his
keyboard during alteration of the libvirt qemu driver.

Kind regards,

David

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