svn commit: r48020 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Fri Jan 15 03:54:52 UTC 2016

Author: bjk
Date: Fri Jan 15 03:54:50 2016
New Revision: 48020
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/48020

Log:
  Add iSER entry from trasz

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml	Fri Jan 15 03:45:09 2016	(r48019)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml	Fri Jan 15 03:54:50 2016	(r48020)
@@ -2336,4 +2336,61 @@
       Microsoft
     </sponsor>
   </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 at mellanox.com</email>
+      </person>
+
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Sagi</given>
+	  <common>Grimberg</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>sagig at mellanox.com</email>
+      </person>
+
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+    <url href="https://github.com/sagigrimberg/iser-FreeBSD">GitHub repository</url>
+    </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 developed 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 Infiniband (IB)/Ethernet adapters.</p>
+
+      <p>Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) has 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 iscsictl.</p>
+
+      <p>The project is in the process of being merged to &os;
+	11-CURRENT and is expected to ship with &os; 11.0.</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <sponsor>
+      Mellanox Technologies
+    </sponsor>
+  </project>
 </report>
