From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: axboe@fb.com
Cc: keith.busch@intel.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, dm-devel@redhat.com,
linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Persistent Reservation API V4
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 14:10:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1444911052-9423-1-git-send-email-hch@lst.de> (raw)
This series adds support for a simplified Persistent Reservation API
to the block layer. The intent is that both in-kernel and userspace
consumers can use the API instead of having to hand craft SCSI or NVMe
command through the various pass through interfaces. It also adds
DM support as getting reservations through dm-multipath is a major
pain with the current scheme.
The ioctl API is documented in Documentation/block/pr.txt, but to
fully understand the concept you'll have to read up the SPC spec,
PRs are too complicated that trying to rephrase them into different
terminology is just going to create confusion.
Note that Mike wants to include the DM patches so through the DM
tree, so they are only included for reference.
I also have a set of simple test tools available at
git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/pr-tests.git
Changes since V3:
- added NVMe support (from Keith Busch)
- add a CAP_SYS_ADMIN check for the ioctl
- trіvial rebase to Jens' latests block tree
Changes since V2:
- added an ignore flag to the reserve opertion as well, and redid
the ioctl API to have general flags fields
- rebased on top of the latest block layer tree updates
Changes since V1:
- rename DM ->ioctl to ->prepare_ioctl
- rename dm_get_ioctl_table to dm_get_live_table_for_ioctl
- merge two DM patches into one
- various spelling fixes
next reply other threads:[~2015-10-15 12:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-15 12:10 Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2015-10-15 12:10 ` [PATCH 1/6] block: cleanup blkdev_ioctl Christoph Hellwig
2015-10-15 12:10 ` [PATCH 2/6] block: add an API for Persistent Reservations Christoph Hellwig
2015-10-15 12:10 ` [PATCH 3/6] sd: implement the Persistent Reservation API Christoph Hellwig
2015-10-15 15:30 ` [dm-devel] " Bart Van Assche
[not found] ` <561FC6AA.3080508-XdAiOPVOjttBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
2015-10-15 15:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-10-15 12:10 ` [PATCH 4/6] dm: refactor ioctl handling Christoph Hellwig
2015-10-15 12:10 ` [PATCH 5/6] dm: add support for passing through persistent reservations Christoph Hellwig
2015-10-15 12:10 ` [PATCH 6/6] NVMe: Add persistent reservation ops Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <1444911052-9423-1-git-send-email-hch-jcswGhMUV9g@public.gmane.org>
2015-10-28 18:43 ` Persistent Reservation API V4 Mike Snitzer
2015-10-28 18:48 ` Mike Snitzer
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