Add a new "buffered_io" attribute, which disabled direct I/O and thus
enables page cache based caching when enabled. The attribute can only
be changed when the namespace is disabled as the file has to be reopend
for the change to take effect.
The possibly blocking read/write are deferred to a newly introduced
global workqueue.
Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Fix to return error code -ENOMEM from the memory alloc fail error
handling case instead of 0, as done elsewhere in this function.
Fixes: d5eff33ee6 ("nvmet: add simple file backed ns support")
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.e>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
This patch adds simple file backed namespace support for NVMeOF target.
The new file io-cmd-file.c is responsible for handling the code for I/O
commands when ns is file backed. Also, we introduce mempools based slow
path using sync I/Os for file backed ns to ensure forward progress under
reclaim.
The old block device based implementation is moved to io-cmd-bdev.c and
use a "nvmet_bdev_" symbol prefix. The enable/disable calls are also
move into the respective files.
Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>
[hch: updated changelog, fixed double req->ns lookup in bdev case]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
