On Wed, 2016-03-16 at 10:48 -0600, Chris Friesen wrote: > On 03/11/2016 01:45 AM, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: > > On Thu, 2016-03-10 at 23:30 -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 04:24:25PM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I'm looking for information on whether the iSCSI target in the kernel offers > >>> any way to do QoS between traffic driven by different initiators. > >>> > >>> I'm trying to make sure that one initiator can't do a denial-of-service > >>> attack against others. > >>> > >>> Does the kernel target have this sort of thing built-in, or do I need to > >>> look at network traffic-shaping to achieve this? > >> > >> It doesn't right now, but it shouldn't be hard to integrate it with > >> blk cgroups. > > > > For iscsi-target application QoS, the per session command sequence > > number window depth (CmdSN) exists to enforce per InitiatorName limits > > via TPG default_cmdsn_depth + se_node_acl->queue_depth configfs > > attributes. > > > > Note these values can be changed on the fly for iscsi-target using > > explicit se_node_acl->acl_group, but currently require a se_session > > reinstatement event for updated ExpCmdSN + MaxCmdSN to take effect. > > On a slightly different note, is there any way to throttle or limit the overall > bandwidth consumed by the iSCSI target in the kernel? I'd like to ensure that > the iSCSI traffic doesn't completely swamp the host accesses to the same block > device. > > I suppose I could do networking-based traffic shaping, but are there any > controls in the block IO subsystem? > On a individual block_device backend basis, block cgroups is the preferred method for doing this. Note that any rate limiting imposed by block cgroups is subject to the current se_node_acl->queue_depth enforced across all LUNs within a given iscsi session. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
