The goal of this work is to remove the explicit dependency for ctl(4)
on iscsi(4), so end-users without iscsi(4) support in the kernel can
use ctl(4) for its other functions.
This allows those without iscsi(4) support built into the kernel to use
ctl(4) as a test mechanism. As a sidenote, this was possible around the
10.0-RELEASE period, but made impossible for end-users without iscsi(4)
between 10.0-RELEASE and 11.0-RELEASE.
Automatically load cfiscsi(4) from ctladm(8) and ctld(8) for backwards
compatibility with previously releases. The automatic loading feature is
compiled into the beforementioned tools if MK_ISCSI == yes when building
world.
Add a manpage for cfiscsi(4) and refer to it in ctl(4).
Differential Revision: D10099
MFC after: 2 months
Relnotes: yes
Reviewed by: mav, trasz
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
If "capacity" LU option is set, ramdisk backend now implements featured
thin provisioned disk, storing data in malloc(9) allocated memory blocks
of pblocksize bytes (default PAGE_SIZE or 4KB). Additionally ~0.2% of LU
size is used for indirection tree (bigger pblocksize reduce the overhead).
Backend supports all unmap and anchor operations. If configured capacity
is overflowed, proper error conditions are reported.
If "capacity" LU option is not set, the backend operates mostly the same
as before without allocating real storage: writes go to nowhere, reads
return zeroes, reporting that all LBAs are unmapped.
This backend is still mostly oriented on testing and benchmarking (it is
still a volatile RAM disk), but now it should allow to run real FS tests,
not only simple dumb dd.
MFC after: 2 weeks
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
Decouple the send and receive limits on the amount of data in a single
iSCSI PDU. MaxRecvDataSegmentLength is declarative, not negotiated, and
is direction-specific so there is no reason for both ends to limit
themselves to the same min(initiator, target) value in both directions.
Allow iSCSI drivers to report their send, receive, first burst, and max
burst limits explicitly instead of using hardcoded values or trying to
derive all of them from the receive limit (which was the only limit
reported by the drivers prior to this change).
Display the send and receive limits separately in the userspace iSCSI
utilities.
Reviewed by: jpaetzel@ (earlier version), trasz@
Sponsored by: Chelsio Communications
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D7279
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..
retval is used to test the return of XML_Parse function which is ok if 1 is
returned and retval it directly returned to the main function and used as an
exit value.
if all the parsing part is done reset retval to 0 so that the command return 0
if everything ok
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3102
Reviewed by: trasz
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: gandi.net
Off by default, build behaves normally.
WITH_META_MODE we get auto objdir creation, the ability to
start build from anywhere in the tree.
Still need to add real targets under targets/ to build packages.
Differential Revision: D2796
Reviewed by: brooks imp
target iSCSI offload. Add mechanism to query maximum receive data segment
size supported by chosen hardware offload module, and use it in ctld(8)
to determine the value to advertise to the other side.
MFC after: 1 month
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
continues to work with newer kernel.
Other ctladm(8) "*list" subcommands seem to already handle it in
a reasonable way.
MFC after: 1 month
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
While ctld(8) still does not allow multiple portal groups per target
to be configured, kernel should now be able to handle it.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
Replace iSCSI-specific LUN mapping mechanism with new one, working for any
ports. By default all ports are created without LUN mapping, exposing all
CTL LUNs as before. But, if needed, LUN mapping can be manually set on
per-port basis via ctladm. For its iSCSI ports ctld does it via ioctl(2).
The next step will be to teach ctld to work with FibreChannel ports also.
Respecting additional flexibility of the new mechanism, ctl.conf now allows
alternative syntax for LUN definition. LUNs can now be defined in global
context, and then referenced from targets by unique name, as needed. It
allows same LUN to be exposed several times via multiple targets.
While there, increase limit for LUNs per target in ctld from 256 to 1024.
Some initiators do not support LUNs above 255, but that is not our problem.
Discussed with: trasz
MFC after: 2 weeks
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
While in most cases CTL should correctly fetch those values from backing
storages, there are some initiators (like MS SQL), that may not like large
physical block sizes, even if they are true. For such cases allow override
fetched values with supported ones (like 4K).
MFC after: 1 week
Technically read requests can be executed in any order or simultaneously
since they are not changing any data. But ZFS prefetcher goes crasy when
it receives consecutive requests from different threads. Since prefetcher
works on level of separate blocks, instead of two consecutive 128K requests
it may receive 32 8K requests in mixed order.
This patch is more workaround then a real fix, and it does not fix all of
prefetcher problems, but it improves sequential read speed by 3-4x times
in some configurations. On the other side it may hurt performance if
some backing store has no prefetch, that is why it is disabled by default
for raw devices.
MFC after: 2 weeks
For ZVOL-backed LUNs this allows to inform initiators if storage's used or
available spaces get above/below the configured thresholds.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
Make this subcommand less FC-specific, reporting target and port addresses
in more generic way. Also make it report list of connected initiators in
unified way, working for both FC and iSCSI, and potentially others.
MFC after: 1 week
Such LUNs will be visible to initiators, but return "not ready" status
on media access commands. If backing storage become available later,
`ctladm modify ...` or `service ctld reload` can trigger its reopen.
It allows to bypass range checks between UNMAP and READ/WRITE commands,
which may introduce additional delays while waiting for UNMAP parameters.
READ and WRITE commands are always processed in safe order since their
range checks are almost free.
This allows to clone VMs and move them between LUNs inside one storage
host without generating extra network traffic to the initiator and back,
and without being limited by network bandwidth.
LUNs participating in copy operation should have UNIQUE NAA or EUI IDs set.
For LUNs without these IDs VMWare will use traditional copy operations.
Beware: the above LUN IDs explicitly set to values non-unique from the VM
cluster point of view may cause data corruption if wrong LUN is addressed!
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
