Importing iSCSI target from NetBSD

[Brooks Davis]

On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 05:43:28PM -0700, Paul Allen wrote:
> >From Scott Long <scottl at samsco.org>, Mon, May 29, 2006 at 05:51:28PM -0600:
> > >P.S. Just to make it clear - just consider running iSCSI over 100MBps 
> > >link or even a slower WAN links, which I think covers very large market 
> > >for this technology now. Performance constrain imposed by running in 
> > >userland is unlikely to be an issue at all.
> > >
> > >-Maxim
> > 
> > Every company and group that I've talked to about iSCSI is worried about
> > performance.  In any case, please follow the lead of Mr. Senault and
> > look at making this a port.
> > 
> > Scott
> 
> And in particular the anticipation of low(er) cost  10Gb Ethernet is a
> driving factor behind iSCSI.
> 
> AFAIK, the low-latency performer in this field (for NICs) is from Myricom.
> Andrew Gallatin (one of the FreeBSD alpha committers)  was responsible for 
> porting the myrinet drivers, so perhaps he can comment as to whether FreeBSD 
> will be getting a driver for their 10GbE cards.  Ethernet at these speeds is 
> real stress-test for many OSs; it should be interesting to see how FreeBSD 
> holds-up.

There's a driver in current.  We don't perform nearly as well as we
should at the moment.

-- Brooks

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