[RFC-v4 0/9] Add support for iSCSI Extensions for RDMA (ISER) target mode

From: Nicholas A. Bellinger
Date: Fri Apr 12 2013 - 17:04:22 EST


From: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi folks,

This series is the forth RFC for iSCSI Extensions for RDMA (ISER) target
mode support planned for an upcoming v3.10 merge. This series refactors
existing traditional iscsi-target mode logic in order for external
ib_isert.ko module code to function with areas common to traditional
TCP socket based iSCSI and RDMA verbs based ISER operation.

This includes a basic iscsit_transport API that allows different transports
to reside under the existing iscsi-target configfs control plane, using an
pre-defined network portal attribute to enable a rdma_cm listener on top
of existing ipoib portals.

At this point the code is functional and pushing sustained RDMA_WRITE +
RDMA_READ traffic using open-iscsi on top of multiple iser network portals +
multiple IB HCA ports + multiple LUNs. Thus far we're using Mellanox IB HCAs
for initial development, and will be verfiying with RoCE capable NICs as well
in the near future.

This RFC-v4 code is available in git against v3.9-rc3 here:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending.git iser_target-rfc-v4

Changes since RFC-v3 include:

- Mark isert_cq_rx_work as static (Or)
- Drop unnecessary ib_dma_sync_single_for_cpu + ib_dma_sync_single_for_device
calls for isert_cmd->sense_buf_dma from isert_put_response (Or)
- Use 12288 for ISER_RX_PAD_SIZE base to save extra page per
struct iser_rx_desc (Or + nab)
- Drop now unnecessary isert_rx_desc usage, and convert RX users to
iser_rx_desc (Or + nab)
- Move isert_[alloc,free]_rx_descriptors() ahead of
isert_create_device_ib_res() usage (nab)
- Mark isert_cq_[rx,tx]_callback() + prototypes as static
- Fix 'warning: 'ret' may be used uninitialized' warning for
isert_create_device_ib_res on powerpc allmodconfig (fengguang + nab)
- Fix 'warning: 'ret' may be used uninitialized' warning for
isert_connect_request on i386 allyesconfig (fengguang + nab)
- Fix pr_debug conversion specification in isert_rx_completion()
(fengguang + nab)
- Drop unnecessary isert_conn->conn_cm_id != NULL check in
isert_connect_release causing the build warning:
"variable dereferenced before check 'isert_conn->conn_cm_id'"
- Fix isert_lid + isert_np leak in isert_setup_np failure path
- Add isert_conn->conn_wait_comp_err usage in isert_free_conn()
for isert_cq_comp_err completion path
- Add isert_conn->logout_posted bit to determine decrement of
isert_conn->post_send_buf_count from logout response completion
- Always set ISER_CONN_DOWN from isert_disconnect_work() callback
- Add request_module for ib_isert to lio_target_np_store_iser()
- Add missing iscsit_put_transport() call in iscsi_target_setup_login_socket()
failure case

RFC-v4 has been rebased this afternoon into target-pending for-next/for-next-merge
to be picked up by monday's -next build.

Please review.

--nab

Nicholas Bellinger (9):
target: Add export of target_get_sess_cmd symbol
iscsi-target: Add iscsit_transport API template
iscsi-target: Initial traditional TCP conversion to iscsit_transport
iscsi-target: Add iser-target parameter keys + setup during login
iscsi-target: Add per transport iscsi_cmd alloc/free
iscsi-target: Refactor RX PDU logic + export request PDU handling
iscsi-target: Refactor TX queue logic + export response PDU creation
iscsi-target: Add iser network portal attribute
iser-target: Add iSCSI Extensions for RDMA (iSER) target driver

drivers/infiniband/Kconfig | 1 +
drivers/infiniband/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/infiniband/ulp/isert/Kconfig | 6 +
drivers/infiniband/ulp/isert/Makefile | 2 +
drivers/infiniband/ulp/isert/ib_isert.c | 2264 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/infiniband/ulp/isert/ib_isert.h | 138 ++
drivers/infiniband/ulp/isert/isert_proto.h | 47 +
drivers/target/iscsi/Makefile | 3 +-
drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c | 1169 ++++++++-----
drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.h | 3 +-
drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_configfs.c | 98 +-
drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_core.h | 26 +-
drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_device.c | 7 +-
drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_erl1.c | 13 +-
drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_login.c | 472 ++++--
drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_login.h | 6 +
drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_nego.c | 182 +--
drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_nego.h | 11 +-
drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_parameters.c | 87 +-
drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_parameters.h | 16 +-
drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_tmr.c | 4 +-
drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_tpg.c | 6 +-
drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_transport.c | 55 +
drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_util.c | 53 +-
drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_util.h | 1 +
drivers/target/target_core_transport.c | 4 +-
include/target/iscsi/iscsi_transport.h | 83 +
include/target/target_core_fabric.h | 2 +-
28 files changed, 3934 insertions(+), 826 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 drivers/infiniband/ulp/isert/Kconfig
create mode 100644 drivers/infiniband/ulp/isert/Makefile
create mode 100644 drivers/infiniband/ulp/isert/ib_isert.c
create mode 100644 drivers/infiniband/ulp/isert/ib_isert.h
create mode 100644 drivers/infiniband/ulp/isert/isert_proto.h
create mode 100644 drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_transport.c
create mode 100644 include/target/iscsi/iscsi_transport.h

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