IAM
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Name:		iSER: iSCSI Extensions for RDMA
Submitter:	Peter Dunlap
Owner:		
Interest:	
Status:         inception scheduled 07/09/2008
Exposure:	closed
Comment:	

SUMMARY
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iSCSI Extensions for RDMA (iSER) accelerates the iSCSI protocol by
mapping the data transfer phases to Remote DMA (RDMA) operations. 
As a result an iSER initiator should be able to read and write data 
from an iSER target at high data rates with relatively low CPU utilization
compared to iSCSI using TCP/IP. This project will implement both 
an iSER initiator and an iSER target. In addition, the project will 
implement an iSCSI port provider (iscsit) for the SCSI Target Mode Framework 
(STMF) introduced by PSARC 2007/523 adding an iSCSI transport option to the
existing Fibre Channel support. The iSER target will be an 
extension of this iSCSI port provider.


ISSUES
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ram-1 : Does the iSER connection lose any features over the TCP connection?


ram-2: 20q #9 - Why is the data transfer side not part of the statistics?
Can be done / considered / added as a target side ...

ram-3: Nit 20q #11 - Didn't see this man page as part of the materials.


THE NEXT STEP
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VOTE:
Approved: Rick Matthews, Joe Kowalski, Mark Carlson
NP: Kais Belgaied

Case approved