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Author SHA1 Message Date
Sagi Grimberg
6a92967ccb nvme-fabrics: Remove tl_retry_count
The timeout before error recovery logic kicks in is
dictated by the nvme keep-alive, so we don't really need
a transport layer retry count. transports can retry for
as much as they like.

Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-07-12 08:31:11 -07:00
Sagi Grimberg
038bd4cb67 nvme: add keep-alive support
Periodic keep-alive is a mandatory feature in NVMe over Fabrics, and
optional in NVMe 1.2.1 for PCIe.  This patch adds periodic keep-alive
sent from the host to verify that the controller is still responsive
and vice-versa.  The keep-alive timeout is user-defined (with
keep_alive_tmo connection parameter) and defaults to 5 seconds.

In order to avoid a race condition where the host sends a keep-alive
competing with the target side keep-alive timeout expiration, the host
adds a grace period of 10 seconds when publishing the keep-alive timeout
to the target.

In case a keep-alive failed (or timed out), a transport specific error
recovery kicks in.

For now only NVMe over Fabrics is wired up to support keep alive, but
we can add PCIe support easily once controllers actually supporting it
become available.

Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Reviewed-by: Steve Wise <swise@chelsio.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-07-05 11:28:20 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
07bfcd09a2 nvme-fabrics: add a generic NVMe over Fabrics library
The NVMe over Fabrics library provides an interface for both transports
and the nvme core to handle fabrics specific commands and attributes
independent of the underlying transport.

In addition, the fabrics library adds a misc device interface that allow
actually creating a fabrics controller, as we can't just autodiscover
it like in the PCI case.  The nvme-cli utility has been enhanced to use
this interface to support fabric connect and discovery.

Signed-off-by: Armen Baloyan <armenx.baloyan@intel.com>,
Signed-off-by: Jay Freyensee <james.p.freyensee@intel.com>,
Signed-off-by: Ming Lin <ming.l@ssi.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-07-05 11:28:16 -06:00