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Re: [Nbd] [PATCH 00/12] nbd: Netlink interface and path failure enhancements



> On Apr 6, 2017, at 5:01 PM, Josef Bacik <josef@...2877...> wrote:
> 
> This patchset adds a new netlink configuration interface to NBD as well as a
> bunch of enhancments around path failures.  The patches provide the following
> enhancemnts to NBD
> 
> - Netlink configuration interface that doesn't leave a userspace application
>   waiting in kernel space for the device to disconnect.
> - Netlink reconfigure interface for adding re-connected sockets to replace dead
>   sockets.
> - A flag to destroy the NBD device on disconnect, much like how mount -o loop
>   works.
> - A status interface that currently will only report whether a device is
>   connected or not, but can be extended to include whatever in the future.
> - A netlink multicast notification scheme to notify user space when there are
>   connection issues to allow for seamless reconnects.
> - Dead link handling.  You can specify a dead link timeout and the NBD device
>   will pause IO for that timeout waiting to see if the connection can be
>   re-established.  This is helpful to allow for things like nbd server upgrades
>   where the whole server disappears for a short period of time.
> 
> These patches have been thorougly and continuously tested for about a month.
> I've been finding bugs in various places, but this batch has been solid for the
> last few days of testing, which include a constant disconnect/reconnect torture
> test.  Thanks,

Oops forgot to mention that I have patches for the nbd user space side that utilizes all of these new interfaces, you can find the tree here

https://github.com/josefbacik/nbd

The user space patches are a bit rough, but utilize everything so good for testing.  They will be cleaned up and submitted once the kernel part is upstream.  Thanks,

Josef


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