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Vladislav Bolkhovitin
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SCST Debug ...
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Richard Sharpe, 30-Nov-2008
This is the SCST Local driver. Its function is to allow you to access devices
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I am thinking of renaming this to something more interesting.
6. Change log
Limitations
===========
Swapping on scst_local's devices and using a writable mmap over a file
on them are not supported due to possible OOM deadlock in the Linux
memory/cache manager. See SCST README for more details.
Note on performance
===================
Although this driver implemented in the most performance effective way,
including zero-copy passing data between SCSI/block subsystems and SCST,
in many cases it is NOT suited to measure performance as a NULL link.
For example, it is not suited for max IOPS measurements. This is because
for such cases not performance of the link between the target and
initiator is the bottleneck, but CPU or memory speed on the target or
initiator. For scst_local you have both initiator and target on the same
system, which means each your initiator and target are much less
CPU/memory powerful.
Change log
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V0.1 24-Sep-2008 (Hyderabad) Initial coding, pretty chatty and messy,
but worked.