From: hch@infradead.org (Christoph Hellwig)
Subject: [PATCH 0/5] nvmet/nvmet_fc: add events for discovery controller rescan
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 09:28:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171101162824.GA15827@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7b7521f3-5412-4969-41dc-c5d87eacd72f@gmail.com>
On Wed, Nov 01, 2017@09:03:37AM -0700, James Smart wrote:
> The "strongly suggest" is laymans language for the word "should" that was
> used in the standard. Should was used so that discovery of the available
> discovery controllers on FC could be done in an automatic and dynamic way
> without apriori knowledge. Any FC target device is free to choose if and
> where they implement discovery controllers, just as on any other transport
> in nvmf.
>
> We have had discussions in the technical working group and with nvme
> leadership on this and as I said, its well within what a transport can do.
> It's doing nothing illegal or odd. It doesn't require explicit documentation
> in a NVMe spec. It is in a NVME fabrics-based transport specification.
Please send a TP against Section 5 of the NVMeoF spec to add your
transport specific re-discovery notifications.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-01 16:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-28 17:21 [PATCH 0/5] nvmet/nvmet_fc: add events for discovery controller rescan James Smart
2017-10-28 17:21 ` [PATCH 1/5] nvmet: call transport on subsystem add and delete James Smart
2017-10-28 17:21 ` [PATCH 2/5] nvmet_fc: support transport subsystem events James Smart
2017-10-28 17:21 ` [PATCH 3/5] lpfc: Add support to generate RSCN events for nport James Smart
2017-10-28 17:21 ` [PATCH 4/5] lpfc: Add NVME rescan support via RSCNs James Smart
2017-10-28 17:21 ` [PATCH 5/5] lpfc: Add sysfs interface to post NVME RSCN James Smart
2017-11-02 20:09 ` Ewan D. Milne
2017-11-02 22:02 ` James Smart
2017-10-29 16:11 ` [PATCH 0/5] nvmet/nvmet_fc: add events for discovery controller rescan Sagi Grimberg
2017-10-30 4:43 ` James Smart
2017-11-01 15:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-11-01 16:03 ` James Smart
2017-11-01 16:28 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-11-01 15:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-11-01 15:55 ` James Smart
2017-11-01 15:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-11-01 16:12 ` James Smart
2017-11-01 16:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] <20171029011456.12885-1-jsmart2021@gmail.com>
2017-10-31 12:22 ` Martin K. Petersen
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