[PATCH v2 0/8] NVMeTCP Offload ULP

[Shai Malin <smalin@marvell.com>]

With the goal of enabling a generic infrastructure that allows NVMe/TCP
offload devices like NICs to seamlessly plug into the NVMe-oF stack, this
patch series introduces the nvme-tcp-offload ULP host layer, which will
be a new transport type called "tcp-offload" and will serve as an 
abstraction layer to work with vendor specific nvme-tcp offload drivers.

NVMeTCP offload is a full offload of the NVMeTCP protocol, this includes 
both the TCP level and the NVMeTCP level.

The nvme-tcp-offload transport can co-exist with the existing tcp and 
other transports. The tcp offload was designed so that stack changes are 
kept to a bare minimum: only registering new transports.
All other APIs, ops etc. are identical to the regular tcp transport.
Representing the TCP offload as a new transport allows clear and manageable
differentiation between the connections which should use the offload path 
and those that are not offloaded (even on the same device).

The nvme-tcp-offload layers and API compared to nvme-tcp and nvme-rdma:

* NVMe layer: *

       [ nvme/nvme-fabrics/blk-mq ]
             |
        (nvme API and blk-mq API)
             |
             |			 
* Vendor agnostic transport layer: *

      [ nvme-rdma ] [ nvme-tcp ] [ nvme-tcp-offload ]
             |        |             |
           (Verbs) 
             |        |             |
             |     (Socket)
             |        |             |
             |        |        (nvme-tcp-offload API)
             |        |             |
             |        |             |
* Vendor Specific Driver: *

             |        |             |
      [ RDMA driver ]       
                      |             |
             [ Network driver ]
                                    |
                       [ NVMeTCP Offload driver ]


Usage:
======
The user will interact with the network-device in order to configure 
the ip/vlan - Logically similar to the RDMA model.
The NVMeTCP configuration is populated as part of the 
nvme connect command.

Example:
Assign IP to the net-device (from any existing Linux tool):

    ip addr add 100.100.0.101/24 dev p1p1

This IP will be used by both net-device and offload-device.

In order to connect from "sw" nvme-tcp through the net-device:

    nvme connect -t tcp -s 4420 -a 100.100.0.100 -n testnqn

In order to connect from "offload" nvme-tcp through the offload-device:

    nvme connect -t tcp_offload -s 4420 -a 100.100.0.100 -n testnqn
	
An alternative approach, and as a future enhancement that will not impact this 
series will be to modify nvme-cli with a new flag that will determine 
if "-t tcp" should be the regular nvme-tcp (which will be the default) 
or nvme-tcp-offload.
Exmaple:
    nvme connect -t tcp -s 4420 -a 100.100.0.100 -n testnqn -[new flag]


Queue Initialization Design:
============================
The nvme-tcp-offload ULP module shall register with the existing 
nvmf_transport_ops (.name = "tcp_offload"), nvme_ctrl_ops and blk_mq_ops.
The nvme-tcp-offload vendor driver shall register to nvme-tcp-offload ULP
with the following ops:
- claim_dev() - in order to resolve the route to the target according to
                the paired net_dev.
- create_queue() - in order to create offloaded nvme-tcp queue.

The nvme-tcp-offload ULP module shall manage all the controller level
functionalities, call claim_dev and based on the return values shall call
the relevant module create_queue in order to create the admin queue and
the IO queues.


IO-path Design:
===============
The nvme-tcp-offload shall work at the IO-level - the nvme-tcp-offload 
ULP module shall pass the request (the IO) to the nvme-tcp-offload vendor
driver and later, the nvme-tcp-offload vendor driver returns the request
completion (the IO completion).
No additional handling is needed in between; this design will reduce the
CPU utilization as we will describe below.

The nvme-tcp-offload vendor driver shall register to nvme-tcp-offload ULP
with the following IO-path ops:
- send_req() - in order to pass the request to the handling of the
               offload driver that shall pass it to the vendor specific device.
- poll_queue()

Once the IO completes, the nvme-tcp-offload vendor driver shall call 
command.done() that will invoke the nvme-tcp-offload ULP layer to
complete the request.


Teardown and errors:
====================
In case of NVMeTCP queue error the nvme-tcp-offload vendor driver shall
call the nvme_tcp_ofld_report_queue_err.
The nvme-tcp-offload vendor driver shall register to nvme-tcp-offload ULP
with the following teardown ops:
- drain_queue()
- destroy_queue()


Changes since RFC v1:
=====================
- nvme-tcp-offload: Fix nvme_tcp_ofld_ops return values.
- nvme-tcp-offload: Remove NVMF_TRTYPE_TCP_OFFLOAD.
- nvme-tcp-offload: Add nvme_tcp_ofld_poll() implementation.
- nvme-tcp-offload: Fix nvme_tcp_ofld_queue_rq() to check map_sg() and 
  send_req() return values.

Changes since RFC v2:
=====================
- nvme-tcp-offload: Fixes in controller and queue level (patches 3-6).
- qedn: Add the Marvell's NVMeTCP HW offload vendor driver init and probe
  (patches 8-11).
  
Changes since RFC v3:
=====================
- nvme-tcp-offload: Add the full implementation of the nvme-tcp-offload layer 
  including the new ops: setup_ctrl(), release_ctrl(), commit_rqs() and new 
  flows (ASYNC and timeout).
- nvme-tcp-offload: Add device maximums: max_hw_sectors, max_segments.
- nvme-tcp-offload: layer design and optimization changes.

Changes since RFC v4:
=====================
(Many thanks to Hannes Reinecke for his feedback)
- nvme_tcp_offload: Add num_hw_vectors in order to limit the number of queues.
- nvme_tcp_offload: Add per device private_data.
- nvme_tcp_offload: Fix header digest, data digest and tos initialization.

Changes since RFC v5:
=====================
(Many thanks to Sagi Grimberg for his feedback)
- nvme-fabrics: Expose nvmf_check_required_opts() globally (as a new patch).
- nvme_tcp_offload: Remove io-queues BLK_MQ_F_BLOCKING.
- nvme_tcp_offload: Fix the nvme_tcp_ofld_stop_queue (drain_queue) flow.
- nvme_tcp_offload: Fix the nvme_tcp_ofld_free_queue (destroy_queue) flow.
- nvme_tcp_offload: Change rwsem to mutex.
- nvme_tcp_offload: remove redundant fields.
- nvme_tcp_offload: Remove the "new" from setup_ctrl().
- nvme_tcp_offload: Remove the init_req() and commit_rqs() ops.
- nvme_tcp_offload: Minor fixes in nvme_tcp_ofld_create_ctrl() ansd 
  nvme_tcp_ofld_free_queue().
- nvme_tcp_offload: Patch 8 (timeout and async) was squeashed into 
  patch 7 (io level).

Changes since RFC v6:
=====================
- No changes in nvme_tcp_offload (only in qedn).

Changes since v0:
=====================
- nvme_tcp_offload: Add support for NVME_OPT_HOST_IFACE.
- nvme_tcp_offload: Kconfig fix (thanks to Petr Mladek).
- nvme_tcp_offload: return code fix (thanks to Dan Carpenter).


Arie Gershberg (2):
  nvme-tcp-offload: Add controller level implementation
  nvme-tcp-offload: Add controller level error recovery implementation

Dean Balandin (3):
  nvme-tcp-offload: Add device scan implementation
  nvme-tcp-offload: Add queue level implementation
  nvme-tcp-offload: Add IO level implementation

Prabhakar Kushwaha (2):
  nvme-fabrics: Move NVMF_ALLOWED_OPTS and NVMF_REQUIRED_OPTS
    definitions
  nvme-fabrics: Expose nvmf_check_required_opts() globally

Shai Malin (1):
  nvme-tcp-offload: Add nvme-tcp-offload - NVMeTCP HW offload ULP

 MAINTAINERS                     |    8 +
 drivers/nvme/host/Kconfig       |   15 +
 drivers/nvme/host/Makefile      |    3 +
 drivers/nvme/host/fabrics.c     |   12 +-
 drivers/nvme/host/fabrics.h     |    9 +
 drivers/nvme/host/tcp-offload.c | 1333 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/nvme/host/tcp-offload.h |  207 +++++
 7 files changed, 1578 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 drivers/nvme/host/tcp-offload.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/nvme/host/tcp-offload.h

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2.22.0


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