Re: [SPDK] using nvmf target/initiator in spdk

[Minfei Huang <mnghuan at gmail.com>]

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Hi.

FYI

Thanks
Minfei

> On Aug 3, 2016, at 00:06, Walker, Benjamin <benjamin.walker(a)intel.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2016-08-02 at 15:52 +0530, Kirubakaran Kaliannan wrote:
>>  
>>  
>> Hi,
>>  
>> Do we have a document on, how to use the spdk to perform the following
>>  
>> 1.       List the devices that SPDK can see
> 
> You can run the identify or nvme_manage example to get a nice list of all of the devices that SPDK
> can attach to. They are in examples/nvme.
> 
>> 2.       Start nvmf target driver with nvme devices
> 
> We have this page: http://www.spdk.io/spdk/doc/nvmf_getting_started.html, which is accurate for our
> last tagged release but has gone stale for the code on 'master'. We'll have an updated one shortly.
> Right now it's fairly early stages, so you mostly have to just read the code. Our configuration file
> is reasonably well documented too.
> 
>> 3.       What nvmf initiator that we can use to connect this on the host machine (ubuntu)?
> 
> We test against the NVMe-oF initiator that will be added to the Linux kernel. It currently exists as
> a set of patches against kernel 4.8. Here is an article from Mellanox explaining how to set up your
> Linux kernel for NVMe-oF: https://community.mellanox.com/docs/DOC-2508. SPDK can run against
> essentially any modern Linux kernel, so you only have to put kernel 4.8 on the initiator system.
> 
>>  
>>  
>> Thanks,
>> -kiru
>> 
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