No description
  • C 98.2%
  • Assembly 1%
  • Makefile 0.3%
  • Shell 0.2%
  • Python 0.1%
Find a file
Repository files (latest commit first)
Filename Latest commit message Latest commit date
Christoph Hellwig 32acab3181 nvme: implement multipath access to nvme subsystems
This patch adds native multipath support to the nvme driver.  For each
namespace we create only single block device node, which can be used
to access that namespace through any of the controllers that refer to it.
The gendisk for each controllers path to the name space still exists
inside the kernel, but is hidden from userspace.  The character device
nodes are still available on a per-controller basis.  A new link from
the sysfs directory for the subsystem allows to find all controllers
for a given subsystem.

Currently we will always send I/O to the first available path, this will
be changed once the NVMe Asynchronous Namespace Access (ANA) TP is
ratified and implemented, at which point we will look at the ANA state
for each namespace.  Another possibility that was prototyped is to
use the path that is closes to the submitting NUMA code, which will be
mostly interesting for PCI, but might also be useful for RDMA or FC
transports in the future.  There is not plan to implement round robin
or I/O service time path selectors, as those are not scalable with
the performance rates provided by NVMe.

The multipath device will go away once all paths to it disappear,
any delay to keep it alive needs to be implemented at the controller
level.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-11-10 19:53:25 -07:00
arch block: remove __bio_kmap_atomic 2017-11-10 19:53:25 -07:00
block block, nvme: Introduce blk_mq_req_flags_t 2017-11-10 19:53:25 -07:00
certs
crypto
Documentation block: remove __bio_kmap_atomic 2017-11-10 19:53:25 -07:00
drivers nvme: implement multipath access to nvme subsystems 2017-11-10 19:53:25 -07:00
firmware
fs block, scsi: Make SCSI quiesce and resume work reliably 2017-11-10 19:53:25 -07:00
include block, nvme: Introduce blk_mq_req_flags_t 2017-11-10 19:53:25 -07:00
init
ipc fix a typo in put_compat_shm_info() 2017-09-25 20:41:46 -04:00
kernel kthread: zero the kthread data structure 2017-11-10 19:53:25 -07:00
lib Merge branch 'parisc-4.14-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux 2017-09-23 06:14:06 -10:00
mm block: add a poll_fn callback to struct request_queue 2017-11-03 10:31:48 -06:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-09-23 05:41:27 -10:00
samples
scripts DeviceTree fixes for 4.14: 2017-09-24 16:04:12 -07:00
security Merge branch 'next-general' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2017-09-24 11:40:41 -07:00
sound
tools Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-09-24 12:33:58 -07:00
usr
virt
.cocciconfig
.get_maintainer.ignore
.gitattributes
.gitignore
.mailmap
COPYING
CREDITS
Kbuild
Kconfig
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Remove Rafael from Opal maintainers. 2017-10-31 14:39:20 -06:00
Makefile Linux 4.14-rc2 2017-09-24 16:38:56 -07:00
README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.