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2017-04-17nbd: add a status netlink commandJosef Bacik1-0/+25
Allow users to query the status of existing nbd devices. Right now this only returns whether or not the device is connected, but could be extended in the future to include more information. Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-17nbd: handle dead connectionsJosef Bacik1-0/+1
Sometimes we like to upgrade our server without making all of our clients freak out and reconnect. This patch provides a way to specify a dead connection timeout to allow us to pause all requests and wait for new connections to be opened. With this in place I can take down the nbd server for less than the dead connection timeout time and bring it back up and everything resumes gracefully. Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-17nbd: multicast dead link notificationsJosef Bacik1-2/+4
Provide a mechanism to notify userspace that there's been a link problem on a NBD device. This will allow userspace to re-establish a connection and provide the new socket to the device without disrupting the device. Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-17nbd: add a reconfigure netlink commandJosef Bacik1-0/+1
We want to be able to reconnect dead connections to existing block devices, so add a reconfigure netlink command. We will also allow users to change their timeout on the fly, but everything else will require a disconnect and reconnect. You won't be able to add more connections either, simply replace dead connections with new more lively connections. Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-17nbd: add a basic netlink interfaceJosef Bacik1-0/+69
The existing ioctl interface for configuring NBD devices is a bit cumbersome and hard to extend. The other problem is we leave a userspace app sitting in it's syscall until the device disconnects, which is less than ideal. This patch introduces a netlink interface for adding and disconnecting nbd devices. This has the benefits of being easily extendable without breaking older userspace applications, and allows us to configure a nbd device without leaving a userspace app sitting waiting for the device to disconnect. With this interface we also gain the ability to configure more devices than are preallocated at insmod time. We also have gained the ability to not specify a particular device and be provided one for us so that userspace doesn't need to find a free device to configure. Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>