Re: [Scst-devel] [ANNOUNCE]: Generic SCSI Target Mid-level For Linux (followup)
From: Bart Van Assche
Date: Sat Jul 12 2008 - 03:53:04 EST
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 5:28 AM, Nicholas A. Bellinger
<nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Using MC/S with a modern iSCSI implementation to take advantage of lots
> of cores and hardware threads is something that allows one to multiplex
> across multiple vendor's NIC ports, with the least possible overhead, in
> the OS INDEPENDENT manner.
Why do you emphasize MC/S so much ? Any datacenter operator that has
the choice between MC/S and using a faster network technology will
choose the last IMHO. It's much more convenient to use e.g. 10 GbE
instead of multiple 1 GbE connections.
Bart.
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