Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v20 3/5] block/gluster: deprecate rdma support

[Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 10:27:31PM +0530, Prasanna Kumar Kalever wrote:
> gluster volfile server fetch happens through unix and/or tcp, it doesn't
> support volfile fetch over rdma, the rdma code may actually mislead,
> to make sure things do not break, for now we fallback to tcp when requested
> for rdma with a warning.
> 
> If you are wondering how this worked all these days, its the gluster libgfapi
> code which handles anything other than unix transport as socket/tcp, sad but
> true.
> 
> Also gluster doesn't support ipv6 addresses, removing the ipv6 related
> comments/docs section
> 
> Signed-off-by: Prasanna Kumar Kalever <prasanna.kalever@redhat.com>
> ---
>  block/gluster.c | 20 ++++++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/block/gluster.c b/block/gluster.c
> index 40ee852..8a54ad4 100644
> --- a/block/gluster.c
> +++ b/block/gluster.c
> @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
>  #include "block/block_int.h"
>  #include "qapi/error.h"
>  #include "qemu/uri.h"
> +#include "qemu/error-report.h"
>  
>  #define GLUSTER_OPT_FILENAME        "filename"
>  #define GLUSTER_OPT_DEBUG           "debug"
> @@ -134,12 +135,10 @@ static int parse_volume_options(GlusterConf *gconf, char *path)
>   *
>   * 'transport' specifies the transport type used to connect to gluster
>   * management daemon (glusterd). Valid transport types are
> - * tcp, unix and rdma. If a transport type isn't specified, then tcp
> - * type is assumed.
> + * tcp, unix. If a transport type isn't specified, then tcp type is assumed.
>   *
>   * 'host' specifies the host where the volume file specification for
> - * the given volume resides. This can be either hostname, ipv4 address
> - * or ipv6 address. ipv6 address needs to be within square brackets [ ].
> + * the given volume resides. This can be either hostname, ipv4 address.
>   * If transport type is 'unix', then 'host' field should not be specified.
>   * The 'socket' field needs to be populated with the path to unix domain
>   * socket.
> @@ -158,11 +157,8 @@ static int parse_volume_options(GlusterConf *gconf, char *path)
>   * file=gluster://1.2.3.4/testvol/a.img
>   * file=gluster+tcp://1.2.3.4/testvol/a.img
>   * file=gluster+tcp://1.2.3.4:24007/testvol/dir/a.img
> - * file=gluster+tcp://[1:2:3:4:5:6:7:8]/testvol/dir/a.img
> - * file=gluster+tcp://[1:2:3:4:5:6:7:8]:24007/testvol/dir/a.img
>   * file=gluster+tcp://host.domain.com:24007/testvol/dir/a.img
>   * file=gluster+unix:///testvol/dir/a.img?socket=/tmp/glusterd.socket
> - * file=gluster+rdma://1.2.3.4:24007/testvol/a.img
>   */
>  static int qemu_gluster_parseuri(GlusterConf *gconf, const char *filename)
>  {
> @@ -185,7 +181,9 @@ static int qemu_gluster_parseuri(GlusterConf *gconf, const char *filename)
>          gconf->transport = g_strdup("unix");
>          is_unix = true;
>      } else if (!strcmp(uri->scheme, "gluster+rdma")) {
> -        gconf->transport = g_strdup("rdma");
> +        gconf->transport = g_strdup("tcp");
> +        error_report("Warning: rdma feature is not supported falling "
> +                     "back to tcp");
>      } else {
>          ret = -EINVAL;
>          goto out;
> @@ -1048,6 +1046,12 @@ static BlockDriver bdrv_gluster_unix = {
>      .create_opts                  = &qemu_gluster_create_opts,
>  };
>  
> +/* rdma is deprecated (actually never supported for volfile fetch)
> + * lets maintain for the protocol compatibility, to make sure things
> + * won't break immediately for now gluster+rdma will fall back to gluster+tcp
> + * protocol with Warning
> + * TODO: remove gluster+rdma interface support
> + */
>  static BlockDriver bdrv_gluster_rdma = {
>      .format_name                  = "gluster",
>      .protocol_name                = "gluster+rdma",
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 
>

Modulo Markus's and Eric's comments:

Reviewed-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>

(I'll make the comment changes on commit)