We do not have non-volatile memory to really save those values, so we
neither report nor support this capability. Also saved mode pages are
not replicated between HA peers now.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Those two values are not directly related, so make them independent.
This does not change any limits immediately, but makes number of LUNs
per port controllable via tunable/sysctl kern.cam.ctl.lun_map_size.
After this change increasing CTL_MAX_LUNS should be pretty cheap,
and even making it tunable should be easy.
MFC after: 2 weeks
- Allow maximal sense size limitation via Control Extension mode page.
- When sense size limited, include descriptors atomically: whole or none.
- Set new SDAT_OVFL bit if some descriptors don't fit the limit.
- Report real written sense length instead of static maximal 252 bytes.
MFC after: 2 weeks
VMware tries to enable this bit to avoid multiple threshold notifications
in case of multiple initiators connected to the same LUN. Unfortunately
their code sends MODE SELECT(6) request with parameter length hardcoded
for the page without any thresholds. Since we have four threshold and our
page is bigger, this attempt fails, that is correct in my understanding.
So all we can do about this now is to report proper error code and hope
VMware fix their code one day.
MFC after: 2 weeks
While CTL still has no real events to report in this way (like SMART),
it is possible to trigger false event by manually setting TEST bit in
Informational Exceptions Control mode page, that can be useful for
initiator testing. This code supports all flavours of IE reporting:
UNIT ATTENTION, RECOVERED ERROR and NO SENSE sense keys, REQUEST SENSE
command and Informational Exceptions log page.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
be accessed by root. It uses unsigned ints instead of size_t
to preserve the ABI.
PR: 207627
Submitted by: ryan@ryanday.net (with slight tweaks)
MFC after: 1 month
CTL itself has no limits on on UNMAP and WRITE SAME sizes. But depending
on backends large requests may take too much time. To avoid that new
configuration options allow to hint initiator maximal sizes it should not
exceed.
MFC after: 2 weeks
- Introduce "ha_shared" port option, which being set to "on" moves the
port into separate port group, shared between HA nodes. This allows to
better handle cases when iSCSI portals are bound to CARP address that can
dynamically move between nodes. Some initiators (at least VMware) don't
detect that after iSCSI reconnect they've attached to different SCSI port
from different port group, that totally breakes ALUA status parsing.
In theory, I believe, it should be enough to have different iSCSI portal
group tags on different nodes to make initiators detect this condition,
but it seems like VMware ignores those values, and even full LUN retaste
forced by UA does not help.
- Make CTL report up to three port groups: 1 -- non-HA mode or ports
with "ha_shared" option set, 2 -- HA node 1, 3 -- HA node 2.
- Report Transitioning state for all port groups when HA interlink is
connected, but neither of nodes is primary for the LUN.
MFC after: 2 weeks
We allow to modify only few fields in mode pages now, but still it is
not good if they unexpectedly change during failover. Also this fixes
reporting of "Mode parameters changed" UAs on secondary node.
HA protocol requires strict version, parameters and configuration match.
Differences there may cause full set of problems up to kernel panic.
To avoid that, validate peer parameters on connect, and abort connection
immediately if some mismatch detected.
REPORT LUNS command is more related to target rather then specific LUN.
This node may be primary for LUNs for some reason unknown to another,
and command forwarded to another node won't be able to report them.
REQUEST SENSE is related to LUN, but in our implementation it reports
only UAs and CAs, that are stored locally rather then on primary node.
Previously, with serseq enabled, next command was unblocked only after
previous completed. With this change, for read operations, next command
is unblocked as soon as last media read completed. This is important
for frontends that actually wait for data move completion (like camtgt),
or when data are moved through the HA link, or especially when both.
CTL HA functionality was originally implemented by Copan many years ago,
but large part of the sources was never published. This change includes
clean room implementation of the missing code and fixes for many bugs.
This code supports dual-node HA with ALUA in four modes:
- Active/Unavailable without interlink between nodes;
- Active/Standby with second node handling only basic LUN discovery and
reservation, synchronizing with the first node through the interlink;
- Active/Active with both nodes processing commands and accessing the
backing storage, synchronizing with the first node through the interlink;
- Active/Active with second node working as proxy, transfering all
commands to the first node for execution through the interlink.
Unlike original Copan's implementation, depending on specific hardware,
this code uses simple custom TCP-based protocol for interlink. It has
no authentication, so it should never be enabled on public interfaces.
The code may still need some polishing, but generally it is functional.
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
This is preparation for possibility to open/close media several times
per LUN life cycle. While there, rename variables to reduce confusion.
As additional bonus this allows to open read-only media, such as ZFS
snapshots.
It has nothing to share with too huge ctl.c other then device descriptor,
but even that may be counted as design error that may be fixed later.
At some point we may even want to have several ioctl ports.
Its idea was to be a simple initiator and execute several commands from
kernel level, but FreeBSD never had consumer for that functionality,
while its implementation polluted many unrelated places..
Reporting SCSI errors to console is often useless, pollutes logs and may
affect performance. For debugging there is kern.cam.ctl.debug sysctl
MFC after: 1 week
At this point IMMED flag is translated to MNT_NOWAIT flag of VOP_FSYNC(),
hoping that file system implements that (ZFS seems doesn't).
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
- remove last remnants of never implemented multiple targets support;
- implement missing support for LUN mapping in this area.
Due to existing locking constraints LUN mapping code is practically
unlocked at this point. Hopefully it is not racy enough to live until
somebody get idea how to call sleeping fronend methods under lock also
taken by the same frontend in non-sleepable context. :(
