Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 15:49:20 +0000 (UTC) From: Warren Block <wblock@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r46971 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201507141549.t6EFnLM1074511@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: wblock Date: Tue Jul 14 15:49:20 2015 New Revision: 46971 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46971 Log: Add Sagi Grimberg <sagig@dev.mellanox.co.il>'s report on iSER. Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml Tue Jul 14 15:26:14 2015 (r46970) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml Tue Jul 14 15:49:20 2015 (r46971) @@ -1111,4 +1111,83 @@ utilize PCID.</p> </body> </project> + + <project cat='proj'> + <title>Mellanox iSCSI Extensions For RDMA (iSER) Support</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Max</given> + <common>Gurtovoy</common> + </name> + <email>maxg@mellanox.com</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>Sagi</given> + <common>Grimberg</common> + </name> + <email>sagig@mellanox.com</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="https://github.com/sagigrimberg/iser-freebsd" /> + </links> + + <body> + <p>Building on the new in-kernel iSCSI initiator stack released + in &os; 10.0 and the recently added iSCSI offload interface, + Mellanox Technologies has begun developing 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 IB/Ethernet adapters.</p> + + <p>Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) have 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.</p> + + <p>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 + <tt>iscsictl</tt>.</p> + + <p>The project is in its beta phase. Recent additions + include:</p> + + <ul> + <li>Rebased on top of 11-CURRENT (r284921)</li> + <li>Added discovery over iSER support</li> + <li>HA and automatic session re-establishment support</li> + <li>Split iSER from iSCSI module</li> + </ul> + + <p>In addition, the <tt>iser</tt> driver has been and continues + to be thoroughly tested. The test suite includes:</p> + + <ul> + <li>traffic</li> + <li>FS tests</li> + <li>compliance tests</li> + <li>traffic failover/failback</li> + <li>session recovery</li> + <li>dynamic module load/unload</li> + </ul> + + <p>The code is ready for inclusion and will be released under + the BSD license.</p> + </body> + + <sponsor> + Mellanox Technologies + </sponsor> + </project> </report>
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