STRUCT ISER_GLOBAL(9)

💖 struct iser_global(9) — iSER global context 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the struct iser_global(9) page from the Kernel API Manual ✨ this is the glowing little control room for iSER, and we're gonna walk through every single field together, no skips, no cap 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

struct iser_global — the iSER global context, aka the main character struct that holds all the global state 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

here's the whole shape of it, copy-pasted with love:

struct iser_global {
    struct mutex      device_list_mutex;
    struct list_head  device_list;
    struct mutex      connlist_mutex;
    struct list_head  connlist;
    struct kmem_cache *desc_cache;
 };

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🦋 Members 🦋

yesss the members section, our fave 💜 every field, one by one:

• device_list_mutex — protects device_list 🔒 that's its whole job and it does it slayfully
• device_list — the iser devices global list 📋 literally the master list of devices, periodt
• connlist_mutex — protects connlist 🔒 another bouncer, this time for the connections
• connlist — the iser connections global list 🔗 all the connections, all in one place, iykyk
• desc_cache — a kmem cache for tx dataout 🎀 memory caching but make it functional

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

okay so here's the whole friend group, go say hi 👑 (kernel file ./drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iscsi_iser.h and then):

• struct iser_data_buf(9)
• struct iser_mem_reg(9)
• struct iser_tx_desc(9)
• struct iser_rx_desc(9)
• struct iser_login_desc(9)
• struct iser_device(9)
• struct iser_reg_resources(9)
• struct iser_fr_desc(9)
• struct iser_fr_pool(9)
• struct ib_conn(9)
• struct iser_conn(9)
• struct iscsi_iser_task(9)

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💀 reminder bestie: the mutexes only matter if you actually use them. read the members, respect the locks, no cap.

okay that's the page!! it lives at ./drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser, dated October 2026, and the title was of course struct iser_global(9) — mwah, bye, go read some structs 🧚💖🎀