From 8359b9596c25c7861e0dc9eb06a9d180a1829774 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Kaduk Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 03:54:50 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add iSER entry from trasz --- .../news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml | 57 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 57 insertions(+) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml index 120a49691f..f8c0de38da 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml @@ -2336,4 +2336,61 @@ Microsoft + + + Mellanox iSCSI Extensions For RDMA (iSER) Support + + + + + Max + Gurtovoy + + maxg@mellanox.com + + + + + Sagi + Grimberg + + sagig@mellanox.com + + + + + + GitHub repository + + + +

Building on the new in-kernel iSCSI initiator stack + released in &os; 10.0 and the recently added iSCSI offload + interface, Mellanox Technologies has developed iSCSI extensions for + RDMA (iSER) initiator support to enable efficient data movement + using the hardware offload capabilities of Mellanox's 10, 40, 56, + and 100 Gigabit Infiniband (IB)/Ethernet adapters.

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Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) has been shown to have a + great value for storage applications. RDMA infrastructure + provides benefits such as zero-copy, CPU offload, reliable + transport, fabric consolidation, and many more. The iSER protocol + eliminates some of the bottlenecks in the traditional iSCSI/TCP + stack, provides low latency and high throughput, and is well + suited for latency aware workloads.

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This work includes a new ICL module that implements the + iSER initiator. The iSCSI stack is slightly modified to support + some extra features such as asynchronous IO completions, unmapped + data buffers, and data-transfer offloads. The user will be able + to choose iSER as the iSCSI transport with iscsictl.

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The project is in the process of being merged to &os; + 11-CURRENT and is expected to ship with &os; 11.0.

+ + + + Mellanox Technologies + +