aoe: user can ask driver to forget previously detected devices

When an AoE device is detected, the kernel is informed, and a new block device
is created.  If the device is unused, the block device corresponding to remote
device that is no longer available may be removed from the system by telling
the aoe driver to "flush" its list of devices.

Without this patch, software like GPFS and LVM may attempt to read from AoE
devices that were discovered earlier but are no longer present, blocking until
the I/O attempt times out.

Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Šī revīzija ir iekļauta:
Ed L. Cashin
2008-02-08 04:20:03 -08:00
revīziju iesūtīja Linus Torvalds
vecāks cf446f0dba
revīzija 262bf54144
5 mainīti faili ar 77 papildinājumiem un 19 dzēšanām

Parādīt failu

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ SUBSYSTEM=="aoe", KERNEL=="discover", NAME="etherd/%k", GROUP="disk", MODE="0220
SUBSYSTEM=="aoe", KERNEL=="err", NAME="etherd/%k", GROUP="disk", MODE="0440"
SUBSYSTEM=="aoe", KERNEL=="interfaces", NAME="etherd/%k", GROUP="disk", MODE="0220"
SUBSYSTEM=="aoe", KERNEL=="revalidate", NAME="etherd/%k", GROUP="disk", MODE="0220"
SUBSYSTEM=="aoe", KERNEL=="flush", NAME="etherd/%k", GROUP="disk", MODE="0220"
# aoe block devices
KERNEL=="etherd*", NAME="%k", GROUP="disk"