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nvme-rdma: add a NVMe over Fabrics RDMA host driver
authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Wed, 6 Jul 2016 12:55:52 +0000 (21:55 +0900)
committerJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Fri, 8 Jul 2016 14:38:49 +0000 (08:38 -0600)
commit7110230719602852481c2793d054f866b2bf4a2b
tree6a03cbd202a96ac609563cd3de5aa59abc425c01
parent8f000cac6e7a6edca7ab93bafc7ed28b27c1545b
nvme-rdma: add a NVMe over Fabrics RDMA host driver

This patch implements the RDMA host (initiator in SCSI speak) driver.  It
can be used to connect to remote NVMe over Fabrics controllers over
Infiniband, RoCE or iWarp, and uses the existing NVMe core driver as well
a the new fabrics library.

To connect to all NVMe over Fabrics controller reachable on a given taget
port using RDMA/CM use the following command:

nvme connect-all -t rdma -a $IPADDR

This requires the latest version of nvme-cli with Fabrics support.

Signed-off-by: Jay Freyensee <james.p.freyensee@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lin <ming.l@ssi.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
Tested-by: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
drivers/nvme/host/Kconfig
drivers/nvme/host/Makefile
drivers/nvme/host/rdma.c [new file with mode: 0644]