freebsd-src/share/man/man4/nvmf.4
John Baldwin aacaeeee8e nvmf: Permit failing I/O requests while disconnected
Add a kern.nvmf.fail_on_disconnection sysctl similar to the
kern.iscsi.fail_on_disconnection sysctl.  This causes pending I/O
requests to fail with an error if an association is disconnected
instead of requeueing to be retried once the association is
reconnected.  As with iSCSI, the default is to queue and retry
operations.

Reviewed by:	imp
Sponsored by:	Chelsio Communications
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D45308
2024-06-05 12:59:07 -07:00

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.\"
.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2024 Chelsio Communications, Inc.
.\"
.Dd June 5, 2024
.Dt NVMF 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm nvmf
.Nd "NVM Express over Fabrics host driver"
.Sh SYNOPSIS
To compile the driver into the kernel,
place the following line in the
kernel configuration file:
.Bd -ragged -offset indent
.Cd "device nvmf"
.Ed
.Pp
Alternatively, to load the driver as a
module at boot time, place the following line in
.Xr loader.conf 5 :
.Bd -literal -offset indent
nvmf_load="YES"
.Ed
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
driver provides the kernel component of an NVM Express over Fabrics
host.
The NVMeoF host is the client which provides local access to
namespaces exported by a remote controller.
.Pp
Associations between the local host and remote controllers are managed
using
.Xr nvmecontrol 8 .
New associations are created via the
.Cm connect
command and destroyed via the
.Cm disconnect
command.
If an association's connection is interrupted,
the
.Cm reconnect
command creates a new association to replace the interrupted association.
.Pp
Similar to
.Xr nvme 4 ,
.Nm
creates controller device nodes using the format
.Pa /dev/nvmeX
and namespace device nodes using the format
.Pa /dev/nvmeXnsY .
.Nm
also exports remote namespaces via the CAM
.Xr nda 4
peripheral driver.
Unlike
.Xr nvme 4 ,
.Nm
does not support the
.Xr nvd 4
disk driver.
.Pp
Associations require a supported transport such as
.Xr nvmf_tcp 4
for associations using TCP/IP.
.Sh SYSCTL VARIABLES
The following variables are available as both
.Xr sysctl 8
variables and
.Xr loader 8
tunables:
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Va kern.nvmf.fail_on_disconnection
Determines the behavior when an association's connection is interrupted.
By default, input/output operations are suspended while a host is disconnected.
This includes operations pending at the time the association's connection was
interrupted as well as new requests submitted while the host is disconnected.
Once a new association is established, suspended I/O requests are retried.
When set to 1, input/output operations fail with
.Er EIO
while a host is disconnected and
.Xr nda 4
peripherals are destroyed after the first failed I/O request.
Note that any destroyed
.Xr nda 4
peripherals will be recreated after a new association is established.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr nda 4 ,
.Xr nvme 4 ,
.Xr nvmf_tcp 4 ,
.Xr nvmft 4 ,
.Xr nvmecontrol 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
module first appeared in
.Fx 15.0 .
.Sh AUTHORS
The
.Nm
driver was developed by
.An John Baldwin Aq Mt jhb@FreeBSD.org
under sponsorship from Chelsio Communications, Inc.
.Sh BUGS
.Nm
only supports a single I/O queue pair per association.