svn commit: r42176 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Sat Jul 6 19:09:16 UTC 2013

Author: pgj
Date: Sat Jul  6 19:09:15 2013
New Revision: 42176
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/42176

Log:
  - Add a Q2 entry on the progress of the native iSCSI stack
  
  Submitted by:	trasz

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml	Sat Jul  6 15:14:42 2013	(r42175)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml	Sat Jul  6 19:09:15 2013	(r42176)
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 
     <!-- XXX: keep updating the number of entries -->
     <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work!  This report
-      contains 14 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
+      contains 15 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
 
     <!-- XXX: set date for the next set of submissions -->
     <p>The deadline for submissions covering between July and September 2013
@@ -751,4 +751,51 @@
 	system.</task>
     </help>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='kern'>
+    <title>Native iSCSI Stack</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Edward Tomasz</given>
+	  <common>Napierała</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>trasz at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/Native%20iSCSI%20target"/>
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>The native kernel iSCSI target and initiator project progressed
+	well over the April to June period.  The primary focus was to
+	introduce support for iSER (iSCSI over RDMA) in both the
+	initiator and the target.  Prerequisite for this was merging
+	some common parts together and implementing a workaround for the
+	lack of iSER support in userspace.  Apart from that, there were
+	a myriad of smaller improvements.  Such as creating more
+	user-friendly administration utilities, for example
+	<tt>iscsictl(8)</tt> which displays SCSI device nodes for each
+	iSCSI session.  This escapes the user from getting the same
+	information through <tt>camcontrol(8)</tt>.  But there are
+	improvements in logging and manual pages as well.</p>
+
+      <p>Once the iSER support becomes stable, the work will focus on
+	performance optimizations.  The plan is to commit both the new
+	initiator and target in August to allow shipping them in 10.0.
+	The project will continue with implementing support for software
+	iWARP stack (useful mostly for testing and development), SCSI
+	passthrough and various other improvements.</p>
+
+	<p>This project is being sponsored by the &os; Foundation.</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>Performance optimization.</task>
+      <task>Merge to &os; <tt>head</tt>.</task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
 </report>
