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Author SHA1 Message Date
Colin Ian King
89c4aff6d4 nvme: fix spelling mistake: "requeing" -> "requeuing"
Trivial fix to spelling mistake in dev_warn_ratelimited message text

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2017-11-20 08:38:10 +01:00
Hannes Reinecke
e9a48034d7 nvme: create 'slaves' and 'holders' entries for hidden controllers
When creating nvme multipath devices we should populate the 'slaves' and
'holders' directorys properly to aid userspace topology detection.

Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
[hch: split from a larger patch, compile fix for CONFIG_NVME_MULTIPATH=n]
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-11-10 19:53:25 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
5b85b826b8 nvme: also expose the namespace identification sysfs files for mpath nodes
We do this by adding a helper that returns the ns_head for a device that
can belong to either the per-controller or per-subsystem block device
nodes, and otherwise reuse all the existing code.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-11-10 19:53:25 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
32acab3181 nvme: implement multipath access to nvme subsystems
This patch adds native multipath support to the nvme driver.  For each
namespace we create only single block device node, which can be used
to access that namespace through any of the controllers that refer to it.
The gendisk for each controllers path to the name space still exists
inside the kernel, but is hidden from userspace.  The character device
nodes are still available on a per-controller basis.  A new link from
the sysfs directory for the subsystem allows to find all controllers
for a given subsystem.

Currently we will always send I/O to the first available path, this will
be changed once the NVMe Asynchronous Namespace Access (ANA) TP is
ratified and implemented, at which point we will look at the ANA state
for each namespace.  Another possibility that was prototyped is to
use the path that is closes to the submitting NUMA code, which will be
mostly interesting for PCI, but might also be useful for RDMA or FC
transports in the future.  There is not plan to implement round robin
or I/O service time path selectors, as those are not scalable with
the performance rates provided by NVMe.

The multipath device will go away once all paths to it disappear,
any delay to keep it alive needs to be implemented at the controller
level.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-11-10 19:53:25 -07:00