Re: [SPDK] SPDK + user space appliance

[Walker, Benjamin <benjamin.walker at intel.com>]

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On Fri, 2018-01-19 at 17:48 +0000, Walker, Benjamin wrote:
> On Fri, 2018-01-19 at 17:38 +0000, Aneesh Pachilangottil wrote:
> > Hi Shahar,
> >                 By namespace, do you mean the namespace exposed by the
> > NVMeOF
> > target which is visible to the host? I am asking because, I am looking into
> > something similar and would like to understand whether our requirements
> > matches.
> >  
> > My requirement is to add a new namespace to an existing NVMeOF subsystem
> > using
> > RPC. I don`t find an option to do this presently using RPC. When calling
> > construct_nvmf_subsystem method, we can specify the list of namespaces to be
> > created, however adding a new namespace to an already existing subsystem
> > doesn`t seems to be supported. This is what I am trying to achieve.
> >  
> 
> This just needs a new RPC for adding/removing a namespace. The code in
> lib/nvmf
> is already set up to handle dynamically adding and removing namespaces, we
> just
> haven't coded the RPC yet. It's on the NVMe-oF trello board https://trello.com
> /b
> /G2f3dVcs/nvme-of.
> _______________________________________________

I've uploaded some patches to add the necessary RPCs. They aren't merged quite
yet, but will be soon. See:

https://review.gerrithub.io/#/c/396696/