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* [PATCH 00/12] nbd: Netlink interface and path failure enhancements
@ 2017-04-06 21:01 Josef Bacik
  2017-04-06 21:01 ` [PATCH 01/12] nbd: put socket in error cases Josef Bacik
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From: Josef Bacik @ 2017-04-06 21:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: axboe, nbd-general, linux-block, kernel-team

This patchset adds a new netlink configuration interface to NBD as well as a
bunch of enhancments around path failures.  The patches provide the following
enhancemnts to NBD

 - Netlink configuration interface that doesn't leave a userspace application
   waiting in kernel space for the device to disconnect.
 - Netlink reconfigure interface for adding re-connected sockets to replace dead
   sockets.
 - A flag to destroy the NBD device on disconnect, much like how mount -o loop
   works.
 - A status interface that currently will only report whether a device is
   connected or not, but can be extended to include whatever in the future.
 - A netlink multicast notification scheme to notify user space when there are
   connection issues to allow for seamless reconnects.
 - Dead link handling.  You can specify a dead link timeout and the NBD device
   will pause IO for that timeout waiting to see if the connection can be
   re-established.  This is helpful to allow for things like nbd server upgrades
   where the whole server disappears for a short period of time.

These patches have been thorougly and continuously tested for about a month.
I've been finding bugs in various places, but this batch has been solid for the
last few days of testing, which include a constant disconnect/reconnect torture
test.  Thanks,

Josef

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2017-04-06 21:01 [PATCH 00/12] nbd: Netlink interface and path failure enhancements Josef Bacik
2017-04-06 21:01 ` [PATCH 01/12] nbd: put socket in error cases Josef Bacik
2017-04-06 21:01 ` [PATCH 02/12] nbd: handle single path failures gracefully Josef Bacik
2017-04-06 21:01 ` [PATCH 03/12] nbd: separate out the config information Josef Bacik
2017-04-06 21:01 ` [PATCH 04/12] nbd: stop using the bdev everywhere Josef Bacik
2017-04-06 21:02 ` [PATCH 05/12] nbd: add a basic netlink interface Josef Bacik
2017-04-06 21:02 ` [PATCH 06/12] nbd: add a reconfigure netlink command Josef Bacik
2017-04-06 21:02 ` [PATCH 07/12] nbd: multicast dead link notifications Josef Bacik
2017-04-06 21:02 ` [PATCH 08/12] nbd: only clear the queue on device teardown Josef Bacik
2017-04-06 21:02 ` [PATCH 09/12] nbd: handle dead connections Josef Bacik
2017-04-06 21:02 ` [PATCH 10/12] nbd: add a status netlink command Josef Bacik
2017-04-06 21:02 ` [PATCH 11/12] nbd: add device refcounting Josef Bacik
2017-04-06 21:02 ` [PATCH 12/12] nbd: add a flag to destroy an nbd device on disconnect Josef Bacik
2017-04-06 21:05 ` [PATCH 00/12] nbd: Netlink interface and path failure enhancements Josef Bacik
2017-04-07 13:04   ` [Nbd] " Wouter Verhelst
2017-04-17 15:59 ` Jens Axboe

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