numam-spdk/doc/iscsi/hotplug.md
Cunyin Chang 1054432d06 doc: Add initial documentation for iscsi hotplug.
Change-Id: I432b83c9bf4a39cd061579d0318b91903299e080
Signed-off-by: Cunyin Chang <cunyin.chang@intel.com>
2017-03-17 16:06:26 -07:00

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iSCSI Hotplug

At the iSCSI level, we provide the following support for Hotplug:

  1. bdev/nvme: At the bdev/nvme level, we start one hotplug monitor which will call spdk_nvme_probe() periodically to get the hotplug events. We provide the private attach_cb and remove_cb for spdk_nvme_probe(). For the attach_cb, we will create the block device base on the NVMe device attached, and for the remove_cb, we will unregister the block device, which will also notify the upper level stack (for iSCSI target, the upper level stack is scsi/lun) to handle the hot-remove event.

  2. scsi/lun: When the LUN receive the hot-remove notification from block device layer, the LUN will be marked as removed, and all the IOs after this point will return with check condition status. Then the LUN starts one poller which will wait for all the commands which have already been submitted to block device to return back; after all the commands return back, the LUN will be deleted.

@sa spdk_nvme_probe