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| author | Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> | 2026-09-14 22:12:34 -1000 |
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| committer | Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> | 2026-09-15 06:57:20 -1000 |
| commit | a9e3760b0838299649c0d57cca44daaf40ba3c33 (patch) | |
| tree | 95807ff0e511c05602ef34808cfc660303309057 /drivers/block/rnbd/README | |
| download | linux-stable-a9e3760b0838299649c0d57cca44daaf40ba3c33.tar.gz linux-stable-a9e3760b0838299649c0d57cca44daaf40ba3c33.zip | |
sched_ext: Maintain an online cid mask in the scheduler arenagrafted
Schedulers on the default cid mapping treat [0, nr_online_cids) as the
online set and restart on hotplug. Schedulers that install their own mapping
with scx_bpf_cid_override() have no way to learn which cids are online: the
count no longer identifies members and the CPU-form cpumask is unusable from
cid programs. This is an obvious hole in the cid API.
Add scx_bpf_online_cmask(), a kernel-maintained cmask in the scheduler's
arena, allocated alongside the per-CPU scratch masks and populated after the
cid mapping is finalized and before ops.init(), for child schedulers too.
The pointer stays valid through ops.exit() with no reference to take. It is
the arena offset as a void pointer, the same form struct_ops arena arguments
arrive in. The verifier types the void return as a scalar for the program's
arena cast.
The mask follows the SCX hotplug notifications: seeded from cpu_active_mask
and updated before ops.cid_online/offline() runs, so it lags cpu_online_mask
only inside a hotplug transition. Updates walk the scheduler list under the
lock that also serializes unlinking. Reads are live, not atomic snapshots.
Root initialization excludes hotplug.
v2: Reworded the getter kerneldoc (Andrea Righi).
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/block/rnbd/README')
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diff --git a/drivers/block/rnbd/README b/drivers/block/rnbd/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000..080f58a54 --- /dev/null +++ b/drivers/block/rnbd/README @@ -0,0 +1,93 @@ +******************************** +RDMA Network Block Device (RNBD) +******************************** + +Introduction +------------ + +RNBD (RDMA Network Block Device) is a pair of kernel modules +(client and server) that allow for remote access of a block device on +the server over RTRS protocol using the RDMA (InfiniBand, RoCE, iWARP) +transport. After being mapped, the remote block devices can be accessed +on the client side as local block devices. + +I/O is transferred between client and server by the RTRS transport +modules. The administration of RNBD and RTRS modules is done via +sysfs entries. + +Requirements +------------ + + RTRS kernel modules + +Quick Start +----------- + +Server side: + # modprobe rnbd_server + +Client side: + # modprobe rnbd_client + # echo "sessname=blya path=ip:10.50.100.66 device_path=/dev/ram0" > \ + /sys/devices/virtual/rnbd-client/ctl/map_device + + Where "sessname=" is a session name, a string to identify the session + on client and on server sides; "path=" is a destination IP address or + a pair of a source and a destination IPs, separated by comma. Multiple + "path=" options can be specified in order to use multipath (see RTRS + description for details); "device_path=" is the block device to be + mapped from the server side. After the session to the server machine is + established, the mapped device will appear on the client side under + /dev/rnbd<N>. + + +RNBD-Server Module Parameters +============================= + +dev_search_path +--------------- + +When a device is mapped from the client, the server generates the path +to the block device on the server side by concatenating dev_search_path +and the "device_path" that was specified in the map_device operation. + +The default dev_search_path is: "/". + +dev_search_path option can also contain %SESSNAME% in order to provide +different device namespaces for different sessions. See "device_path" +option for details. + +============================ +Protocol (rnbd/rnbd-proto.h) +============================ + +1. Before mapping first device from a given server, client sends an +RNBD_MSG_SESS_INFO to the server. Server responds with +RNBD_MSG_SESS_INFO_RSP. Currently the messages only contain the protocol +version for backward compatibility. + +2. Client requests to open a device by sending RNBD_MSG_OPEN message. This +contains the path to the device and access mode (read-only or writable). +Server responds to the message with RNBD_MSG_OPEN_RSP. This contains +a 32 bit device id to be used for IOs and device "geometry" related +information: side, max_hw_sectors, etc. + +3. Client attaches RNBD_MSG_IO to each IO message send to a device. This +message contains device id, provided by server in his rnbd_msg_open_rsp, +sector to be accessed, read-write flags and bi_size. + +4. Client closes a device by sending RNBD_MSG_CLOSE which contains only the +device id provided by the server. + +========================================= +Contributors List(in alphabetical order) +========================================= +Danil Kipnis <danil.kipnis@profitbricks.com> +Fabian Holler <mail@fholler.de> +Guoqing Jiang <guoqing.jiang@cloud.ionos.com> +Jack Wang <jinpu.wang@profitbricks.com> +Kleber Souza <kleber.souza@profitbricks.com> +Lutz Pogrell <lutz.pogrell@cloud.ionos.com> +Milind Dumbare <Milind.dumbare@gmail.com> +Roman Penyaev <roman.penyaev@profitbricks.com> +Swapnil Ingle <ingleswapnil@gmail.com> |
