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# 296373 04-Mar-2016 marius

- Copy stable/10@296371 to releng/10.3 in preparation for 10.3-RC1
builds.
- Update newvers.sh to reflect RC1.
- Update __FreeBSD_version to reflect 10.3.
- Update default pkg(8) configuration to use the quarterly branch.

Approved by: re (implicit)

# 288810 05-Oct-2015 mav

MFC r288310: Add to CTL initial support for CDROMs and removable devices.

Relnotes: yes


# 288805 05-Oct-2015 mav

MFC r288259: Remove some duplicate, legacy, dead and questionable code.


# 288736 05-Oct-2015 mav

MFC r287707: CTL documentation update, mostly for HA.


# 288731 05-Oct-2015 mav

MFC r287620: Remove unused target and initiator IDs.


# 288728 05-Oct-2015 mav

MFC r287500: Allow LUN options modification via CTL_LUNREQ_MODIFY.

Not all changes take effect, but that is a different question.


# 288719 05-Oct-2015 mav

MFC r286806: Drop "internal" CTL frontend.

Its idea was to be a simple initiator and execute several commands from
kernel level, but FreeBSD never had consumer for that functionality,
while its implementation polluted many unrelated places.


# 284671 21-Jun-2015 trasz

MFC r283285:

Advertise ctlstat(8) a little better.

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 279002 19-Feb-2015 mav

MFC r278037: CTL LUN mapping rewrite.

Replace iSCSI-specific LUN mapping mechanism with new one, working for any
ports. By default all ports are created without LUN mapping, exposing all
CTL LUNs as before. But, if needed, LUN mapping can be manually set on
per-port basis via ctladm. For its iSCSI ports ctld does it via ioctl(2).
The next step will be to teach ctld to work with FibreChannel ports also.

Respecting additional flexibility of the new mechanism, ctl.conf now allows
alternative syntax for LUN definition. LUNs can now be defined in global
context, and then referenced from targets by unique name, as needed. It
allows same LUN to be exposed several times via multiple targets.

While there, increase limit for LUNs per target in ctld from 256 to 1024.
Some initiators do not support LUNs above 255, but that is not our problem.

Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.


# 278793 15-Feb-2015 mav

MFC r278621: Fix man page to match real option names.


# 276179 24-Dec-2014 mav

MFC r275865:
Add configuration options to override physical and UNMAP blocks geometry.

While in most cases CTL should correctly fetch those values from backing
storages, there are some initiators (like MS SQL), that may not like large
physical block sizes, even if they are true. For such cases allow override
fetched values with supported ones (like 4K).


# 275896 18-Dec-2014 mav

MFC r275482: Document r275481 changes.


# 275895 18-Dec-2014 mav

MFC r275568:
Count consecutive read requests as blocking in CTL for files and ZVOLs.

Technically read requests can be executed in any order or simultaneously
since they are not changing any data. But ZFS prefetcher goes crasy when
it receives consecutive requests from different threads. Since prefetcher
works on level of separate blocks, instead of two consecutive 128K requests
it may receive 32 8K requests in mixed order.

This patch is more workaround then a real fix, and it does not fix all of
prefetcher problems, but it improves sequential read speed by 3-4x times
in some configurations. On the other side it may hurt performance if
some backing store has no prefetch, that is why it is disabled by default
for raw devices.


# 274732 20-Nov-2014 mav

MFC r274154, r274163:
Add to CTL support for logical block provisioning threshold notifications.

For ZVOL-backed LUNs this allows to inform initiators if storage's used or
available spaces get above/below the configured thresholds.

Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.


# 273980 02-Nov-2014 mav

MFC r273687:
Add "rpm" and "formfactor" LUN options to match istgt functionality.


# 273320 20-Oct-2014 mav

MFC r272978: Improve and document `ctladm portlist` subcommand.

Make this subcommand less FC-specific, reporting target and port addresses
in more generic way. Also make it report list of connected initiators in
unified way, working for both FC and iSCSI, and potentially others.


# 273312 20-Oct-2014 mav

MFC r272748:
Implement software (mode page) and hardware (config) write protection.


# 272630 06-Oct-2014 mav

MFC r271507:
Implement control over command reordering via options and control mode page.

It allows to bypass range checks between UNMAP and READ/WRITE commands,
which may introduce additional delays while waiting for UNMAP parameters.
READ and WRITE commands are always processed in safe order since their
range checks are almost free.


# 272629 06-Oct-2014 mav

MFC r271505:
Add "readcache" and "writecache" LUN options to control default behavior.

Default values are "on". Disabling requires backend to support IO_DIRECT
and IO_SYNC flags respectively, or some alternatives.


# 269296 30-Jul-2014 mav

MFC r268767:
Add support for VMWare dialect of EXTENDED COPY command, aka VAAI Clone.

This allows to clone VMs and move them between LUNs inside one storage
host without generating extra network traffic to the initiator and back,
and without being limited by network bandwidth.

LUNs participating in copy operation should have UNIQUE NAA or EUI IDs set.
For LUNs without these IDs VMWare will use traditional copy operations.

Beware: the above LUN IDs explicitly set to values non-unique from the VM
cluster point of view may cause data corruption if wrong LUN is addressed!

Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.


# 269071 24-Jul-2014 mav

MFC r268457 (by pluknet):
Fix typos.


# 268699 15-Jul-2014 mav

MFC r268447:
Add LUN options to specify 64-bit EUI and NAA identifiers.


# 268683 15-Jul-2014 mav

MFC r268293:
Burry devid port method, which was a gross hack.

Instead make ports provide wanted port and target IDs, and LUNs provide
wanted LUN IDs. After that core Device ID VPD code only had to link all
of them together and add relative port and port group numbers.

LUN ID for iSCSI LUNs no longer created by CTL, but by ctld, and passed
to CTL as "scsiname" LUN option. This makes LUNs to report the same set
of IDs, independently from the port through which it is accessed, as
required by SCSI specifications.


# 268153 02-Jul-2014 mav

MFC r267516i (by joel):
mdoc: add missing width to Bl -tag.


# 268152 02-Jul-2014 mav

MFC r267506:
Document additional LUN/backend options.


# 257540 02-Nov-2013 trasz

MFC r257379:

Rename '-h' option to '-p', and use "portal" instead of "host" or "address",
in order to be consistent with iSCSI terminology. Besides, calling the
option '-h' was just wrong.

This changes usage for newly added iscsictl(8), and two newly added
subcommands to ctladm(8). This breaks POLA between CURRENT and 10,
but since 10.0 has not been released yet, it's still ok to do.

MFC r257380:

Bump .Dd after r257379.

Approved by: re (glebius)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 256281 10-Oct-2013 gjb

Copy head (r256279) to stable/10 as part of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 255570 14-Sep-2013 trasz

Bring in the new iSCSI target and initiator.

Reviewed by: ken (parts)
Approved by: re (delphij)
Sponsored by: FreeBSD Foundation


# 249373 11-Apr-2013 joel

Remove contractions.


# 249011 02-Apr-2013 trasz

Fix dates in manual pages modified in 249009.


# 249009 02-Apr-2013 trasz

Make it possible to build CTL as a module.

Reviewed by: ken
Sponsored by: FreeBSD Foundation


# 236509 03-Jun-2012 joel

Minor spelling fixes.


# 235873 24-May-2012 wblock

Fixes to man8 groff mandoc style, usage mistakes, or typos.

PR: 168016
Submitted by: Nobuyuki Koganemaru
Approved by: gjb
MFC after: 3 days


# 233648 29-Mar-2012 eadler

Remove trailing whitespace per mdoc lint warning

Disussed with: gavin
No objection from: doc
Approved by: joel
MFC after: 3 days


# 233455 25-Mar-2012 joel

Remove superfluous paragraph macro.


# 232604 06-Mar-2012 trasz

Add LUN resizing to CTL. Also make it possible to explicitly set
size when creating file-backed or device-backed LUN.

Reviewed by: ken (earlier version)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 229997 12-Jan-2012 ken

Add the CAM Target Layer (CTL).

CTL is a disk and processor device emulation subsystem originally written
for Copan Systems under Linux starting in 2003. It has been shipping in
Copan (now SGI) products since 2005.

It was ported to FreeBSD in 2008, and thanks to an agreement between SGI
(who acquired Copan's assets in 2010) and Spectra Logic in 2010, CTL is
available under a BSD-style license. The intent behind the agreement was
that Spectra would work to get CTL into the FreeBSD tree.

Some CTL features:

- Disk and processor device emulation.
- Tagged queueing
- SCSI task attribute support (ordered, head of queue, simple tags)
- SCSI implicit command ordering support. (e.g. if a read follows a mode
select, the read will be blocked until the mode select completes.)
- Full task management support (abort, LUN reset, target reset, etc.)
- Support for multiple ports
- Support for multiple simultaneous initiators
- Support for multiple simultaneous backing stores
- Persistent reservation support
- Mode sense/select support
- Error injection support
- High Availability support (1)
- All I/O handled in-kernel, no userland context switch overhead.

(1) HA Support is just an API stub, and needs much more to be fully
functional.

ctl.c: The core of CTL. Command handlers and processing,
character driver, and HA support are here.

ctl.h: Basic function declarations and data structures.

ctl_backend.c,
ctl_backend.h: The basic CTL backend API.

ctl_backend_block.c,
ctl_backend_block.h: The block and file backend. This allows for using
a disk or a file as the backing store for a LUN.
Multiple threads are started to do I/O to the
backing device, primarily because the VFS API
requires that to get any concurrency.

ctl_backend_ramdisk.c: A "fake" ramdisk backend. It only allocates a
small amount of memory to act as a source and sink
for reads and writes from an initiator. Therefore
it cannot be used for any real data, but it can be
used to test for throughput. It can also be used
to test initiators' support for extremely large LUNs.

ctl_cmd_table.c: This is a table with all 256 possible SCSI opcodes,
and command handler functions defined for supported
opcodes.

ctl_debug.h: Debugging support.

ctl_error.c,
ctl_error.h: CTL-specific wrappers around the CAM sense building
functions.

ctl_frontend.c,
ctl_frontend.h: These files define the basic CTL frontend port API.

ctl_frontend_cam_sim.c: This is a CTL frontend port that is also a CAM SIM.
This frontend allows for using CTL without any
target-capable hardware. So any LUNs you create in
CTL are visible in CAM via this port.

ctl_frontend_internal.c,
ctl_frontend_internal.h:
This is a frontend port written for Copan to do
some system-specific tasks that required sending
commands into CTL from inside the kernel. This
isn't entirely relevant to FreeBSD in general,
but can perhaps be repurposed.

ctl_ha.h: This is a stubbed-out High Availability API. Much
more is needed for full HA support. See the
comments in the header and the description of what
is needed in the README.ctl.txt file for more
details.

ctl_io.h: This defines most of the core CTL I/O structures.
union ctl_io is conceptually very similar to CAM's
union ccb.

ctl_ioctl.h: This defines all ioctls available through the CTL
character device, and the data structures needed
for those ioctls.

ctl_mem_pool.c,
ctl_mem_pool.h: Generic memory pool implementation used by the
internal frontend.

ctl_private.h: Private data structres (e.g. CTL softc) and
function prototypes. This also includes the SCSI
vendor and product names used by CTL.

ctl_scsi_all.c,
ctl_scsi_all.h: CTL wrappers around CAM sense printing functions.

ctl_ser_table.c: Command serialization table. This defines what
happens when one type of command is followed by
another type of command.

ctl_util.c,
ctl_util.h: CTL utility functions, primarily designed to be
used from userland. See ctladm for the primary
consumer of these functions. These include CDB
building functions.

scsi_ctl.c: CAM target peripheral driver and CTL frontend port.
This is the path into CTL for commands from
target-capable hardware/SIMs.

README.ctl.txt: CTL code features, roadmap, to-do list.

usr.sbin/Makefile: Add ctladm.

ctladm/Makefile,
ctladm/ctladm.8,
ctladm/ctladm.c,
ctladm/ctladm.h,
ctladm/util.c: ctladm(8) is the CTL management utility.
It fills a role similar to camcontrol(8).
It allow configuring LUNs, issuing commands,
injecting errors and various other control
functions.

usr.bin/Makefile: Add ctlstat.

ctlstat/Makefile
ctlstat/ctlstat.8,
ctlstat/ctlstat.c: ctlstat(8) fills a role similar to iostat(8).
It reports I/O statistics for CTL.

sys/conf/files: Add CTL files.

sys/conf/NOTES: Add device ctl.

sys/cam/scsi_all.h: To conform to more recent specs, the inquiry CDB
length field is now 2 bytes long.

Add several mode page definitions for CTL.

sys/cam/scsi_all.c: Handle the new 2 byte inquiry length.

sys/dev/ciss/ciss.c,
sys/dev/ata/atapi-cam.c,
sys/cam/scsi/scsi_targ_bh.c,
scsi_target/scsi_cmds.c,
mlxcontrol/interface.c: Update for 2 byte inquiry length field.

scsi_da.h: Add versions of the format and rigid disk pages
that are in a more reasonable format for CTL.

amd64/conf/GENERIC,
i386/conf/GENERIC,
ia64/conf/GENERIC,
sparc64/conf/GENERIC: Add device ctl.

i386/conf/PAE: The CTL frontend SIM at least does not compile
cleanly on PAE.

Sponsored by: Copan Systems, SGI and Spectra Logic
MFC after: 1 month