Re: Persistent Reservation API V2

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On Tue, 11 Aug 2015, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
This series adds support for a simplified Persistent Reservation API
to the block layer.  The intent is that both in-kernel and userspace
consumers can use the API instead of having to hand craft SCSI or NVMe
command through the various pass through interfaces.  It also adds
DM support as getting reservations through dm-multipath is a major
pain with the current scheme.

NVMe support currently isn't included as I don't have a multihost
NVMe setup to test on, but Keith offered to test it and I'll have
a patch for it shortly.

Hi Christoph,

I wrote an nvme implementation and it seems to work as expected with your
pr-tests (minor modification to open an nvme target). While API appears to
work as designed, there are a few features of NVMe that are unreachable
with it. For example, NVMe can ignore existing keys when acquiring a
reservation in addition to registering a new key. NVMe can also specify
if whether or not a reservation should persist through power-loss.

Anyway, I don't think SCSI has these same options. Should this new IOCTL
API accommodate the common subset to maintain its simplicity, or make
it more expressive for all features? The more important question might
be if there are any users requiring these features, and I honestly don't
know that right now.
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