Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] scsi-mq prototype discussion

["Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>]

On Thu, 2013-07-11 at 18:02 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 05:23:32PM -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> > Drilling down the work items ahead of a real mainline push is high on
> > priority list for discussion.
> > 
> > The parties to be included in such a discussion are:
> > 
> >   - Jens Axboe (blk-mq author)
> >   - James Bottomley (scsi maintainer)
> >   - Christoph Hellwig (scsi)
> >   - Martin Petersen (scsi)
> >   - Tejun Heo (block + libata)
> >   - Hannes Reinecke (scsi error recovery)
> >   - Kent Overstreet (block, per-cpu ida)
> >   - Stephen Cameron (scsi-over-pcie driver)
> >   - Andrew Vasquez (qla2xxx LLD)
> >   - James Smart (lpfc LLD)
> 
> Isn't this something that should have been discussed at the storage
> mini-summit a few months ago?

The scsi-mq prototype, along with blk-mq (in it's current form) did not
exist a few short months ago.  ;)

>  It seems very specific to one subsystem to be a kernel summit topic,
> don't you think?

It's no more subsystem specific than half of the other proposals so far,
and given it's reach across multiple subsystems (block, scsi, target),
and the amount of off-list interest on the topic, I think it would make
a good candidate for discussion.

Thanks,

--nab