History log of /freebsd-10-stable/sys/cam/ctl/ctl_backend.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# 313369 07-Feb-2017 mav

MFC r312603: Add initial support for CTL module unloading.

It is only a first step and not perfect, but better then nothing.
The main blocker is CAM target frontend, that can not be unloaded,
since CAM does not have mechanism to unregister periph driver now.


# 312841 26-Jan-2017 mav

MFC r311804: Rewrite CTL statistics in more simple and scalable way.

Instead of collecting statistics for each combination of ports and logical
units, that consumed ~45KB per LU with present number of ports, collect
separate statistics for every port and every logical unit separately, that
consume only 176 bytes per each single LU/port. This reduces struct
ctl_lun size down to just 6KB.

Also new IOCTL API/ABI does not hardcode number of LUs/ports, and should
allow handling of very large quantities.

Old API is still enabled in stable branches for compatibility reasons.


# 288811 05-Oct-2015 mav

MFC r288348: Umplement media load/eject support for removable devices.

In case of block backend eject really closes the backing store, while
load tries to open it back. Failed store open is reported as no media.


# 288732 05-Oct-2015 mav

MFC r287621: Reimplement CTL High Availability.

CTL HA functionality was originally implemented by Copan many years ago,
but large part of the sources was never published. This change includes
clean room implementation of the missing code and fixes for many bugs.

This code supports dual-node HA with ALUA in four modes:
- Active/Unavailable without interlink between nodes;
- Active/Standby with second node handling only basic LUN discovery and
reservation, synchronizing with the first node through the interlink;
- Active/Active with both nodes processing commands and accessing the
backing storage, synchronizing with the first node through the interlink;
- Active/Active with second node working as proxy, transfering all
commands to the first node for execution through the interlink.

Unlike original Copan's implementation, depending on specific hardware,
this code uses simple custom TCP-based protocol for interlink. It has
no authentication, so it should never be enabled on public interfaces.

The code may still need some polishing, but generally it is functional.

Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.


# 288727 05-Oct-2015 mav

MFC r287499: Move setting of media parameters inside open routines.

This is preparation for possibility to open/close media several times
per LUN life cycle. While there, rename variables to reduce confusion.
As additional bonus this allows to open read-only media, such as ZFS
snapshots.


# 276237 26-Dec-2014 mav

MFC r275920, r276127: Pass real optimal transfer size supported by backend.

For files and ZVOLs that is 1MB now, not 128K.


# 276179 24-Dec-2014 mav

MFC r275865:
Add configuration options to override physical and UNMAP blocks geometry.

While in most cases CTL should correctly fetch those values from backing
storages, there are some initiators (like MS SQL), that may not like large
physical block sizes, even if they are true. For such cases allow override
fetched values with supported ones (like 4K).


# 275895 18-Dec-2014 mav

MFC r275568:
Count consecutive read requests as blocking in CTL for files and ZVOLs.

Technically read requests can be executed in any order or simultaneously
since they are not changing any data. But ZFS prefetcher goes crasy when
it receives consecutive requests from different threads. Since prefetcher
works on level of separate blocks, instead of two consecutive 128K requests
it may receive 32 8K requests in mixed order.

This patch is more workaround then a real fix, and it does not fix all of
prefetcher problems, but it improves sequential read speed by 3-4x times
in some configurations. On the other side it may hurt performance if
some backing store has no prefetch, that is why it is disabled by default
for raw devices.


# 274732 20-Nov-2014 mav

MFC r274154, r274163:
Add to CTL support for logical block provisioning threshold notifications.

For ZVOL-backed LUNs this allows to inform initiators if storage's used or
available spaces get above/below the configured thresholds.

Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.


# 273978 02-Nov-2014 mav

MFC r273075: Remove couple Copan's vendor-specific mode pages.

Those pages are highly system-/hardware-specific, the code is incomplete,
and so they hardly can be useful for anybody else.


# 273315 20-Oct-2014 mav

MFC r272911:
Make ctld start even if some LUNs are unable to open backing storage.

Such LUNs will be visible to initiators, but return "not ready" status
on media access commands. If backing storage become available later,
`ctladm modify ...` or `service ctld reload` can trigger its reopen.


# 273311 20-Oct-2014 mav

MFC r272734:
Add support for WRITE ATOMIC (16) command and report SBC-4 compliance.

Atomic writes are only supported for ZVOLs in "dev" mode. In other cases
atomicity can not be guarantied and so the command is blocked.


# 268678 15-Jul-2014 mav

MFC r268280:
Make options KPI more generic to allow it to be used for ports too,
not only for LUNs.


# 268143 02-Jul-2014 mav

MFC r267481, r267952:
Implement small KPI to access LUN options instead doing it by hands.


# 265634 08-May-2014 mav

MFC r264274, r264279, r264283, r264296, r264297:
Add support for SCSI UNMAP commands to CTL.

This patch adds support for three new SCSI commands: UNMAP, WRITE SAME(10)
and WRITE SAME(16). WRITE SAME commands support both normal write mode
and UNMAP flag. To properly report UNMAP capabilities this patch also adds
support for reporting two new VPD pages: Block limits and Logical Block
Provisioning.

UNMAP support can be enabled per-LUN by adding "-o unmap=on" to `ctladm
create` command line or "option unmap on" to lun sections of /etc/ctl.conf.

At this moment UNMAP supported for ramdisks and device-backed block LUNs.
It was tested to work great with ZFS ZVOLs. For file-backed LUNs UNMAP
support is unfortunately missing due to absence of respective VFS KPI.

Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc


# 264727 21-Apr-2014 mav

MFC r264191:
Report stripe size and offset of the backing device in READ CAPACITY (16)
as physical sector size and offset.


# 288732 05-Oct-2015 mav

MFC r287621: Reimplement CTL High Availability.

CTL HA functionality was originally implemented by Copan many years ago,
but large part of the sources was never published. This change includes
clean room implementation of the missing code and fixes for many bugs.

This code supports dual-node HA with ALUA in four modes:
- Active/Unavailable without interlink between nodes;
- Active/Standby with second node handling only basic LUN discovery and
reservation, synchronizing with the first node through the interlink;
- Active/Active with both nodes processing commands and accessing the
backing storage, synchronizing with the first node through the interlink;
- Active/Active with second node working as proxy, transfering all
commands to the first node for execution through the interlink.

Unlike original Copan's implementation, depending on specific hardware,
this code uses simple custom TCP-based protocol for interlink. It has
no authentication, so it should never be enabled on public interfaces.

The code may still need some polishing, but generally it is functional.

Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.


# 288727 05-Oct-2015 mav

MFC r287499: Move setting of media parameters inside open routines.

This is preparation for possibility to open/close media several times
per LUN life cycle. While there, rename variables to reduce confusion.
As additional bonus this allows to open read-only media, such as ZFS
snapshots.


# 276237 26-Dec-2014 mav

MFC r275920, r276127: Pass real optimal transfer size supported by backend.

For files and ZVOLs that is 1MB now, not 128K.


# 276179 24-Dec-2014 mav

MFC r275865:
Add configuration options to override physical and UNMAP blocks geometry.

While in most cases CTL should correctly fetch those values from backing
storages, there are some initiators (like MS SQL), that may not like large
physical block sizes, even if they are true. For such cases allow override
fetched values with supported ones (like 4K).


# 275895 18-Dec-2014 mav

MFC r275568:
Count consecutive read requests as blocking in CTL for files and ZVOLs.

Technically read requests can be executed in any order or simultaneously
since they are not changing any data. But ZFS prefetcher goes crasy when
it receives consecutive requests from different threads. Since prefetcher
works on level of separate blocks, instead of two consecutive 128K requests
it may receive 32 8K requests in mixed order.

This patch is more workaround then a real fix, and it does not fix all of
prefetcher problems, but it improves sequential read speed by 3-4x times
in some configurations. On the other side it may hurt performance if
some backing store has no prefetch, that is why it is disabled by default
for raw devices.


# 274732 20-Nov-2014 mav

MFC r274154, r274163:
Add to CTL support for logical block provisioning threshold notifications.

For ZVOL-backed LUNs this allows to inform initiators if storage's used or
available spaces get above/below the configured thresholds.

Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.


# 273978 02-Nov-2014 mav

MFC r273075: Remove couple Copan's vendor-specific mode pages.

Those pages are highly system-/hardware-specific, the code is incomplete,
and so they hardly can be useful for anybody else.


# 273315 20-Oct-2014 mav

MFC r272911:
Make ctld start even if some LUNs are unable to open backing storage.

Such LUNs will be visible to initiators, but return "not ready" status
on media access commands. If backing storage become available later,
`ctladm modify ...` or `service ctld reload` can trigger its reopen.


# 273311 20-Oct-2014 mav

MFC r272734:
Add support for WRITE ATOMIC (16) command and report SBC-4 compliance.

Atomic writes are only supported for ZVOLs in "dev" mode. In other cases
atomicity can not be guarantied and so the command is blocked.


# 268678 15-Jul-2014 mav

MFC r268280:
Make options KPI more generic to allow it to be used for ports too,
not only for LUNs.


# 268143 02-Jul-2014 mav

MFC r267481, r267952:
Implement small KPI to access LUN options instead doing it by hands.


# 265634 08-May-2014 mav

MFC r264274, r264279, r264283, r264296, r264297:
Add support for SCSI UNMAP commands to CTL.

This patch adds support for three new SCSI commands: UNMAP, WRITE SAME(10)
and WRITE SAME(16). WRITE SAME commands support both normal write mode
and UNMAP flag. To properly report UNMAP capabilities this patch also adds
support for reporting two new VPD pages: Block limits and Logical Block
Provisioning.

UNMAP support can be enabled per-LUN by adding "-o unmap=on" to `ctladm
create` command line or "option unmap on" to lun sections of /etc/ctl.conf.

At this moment UNMAP supported for ramdisks and device-backed block LUNs.
It was tested to work great with ZFS ZVOLs. For file-backed LUNs UNMAP
support is unfortunately missing due to absence of respective VFS KPI.

Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc


# 264727 21-Apr-2014 mav

MFC r264191:
Report stripe size and offset of the backing device in READ CAPACITY (16)
as physical sector size and offset.