Commit 3a85a5de authored by Christoph Hellwig's avatar Christoph Hellwig Committed by Jens Axboe

nvme-loop: add a NVMe loopback host driver

This patch implements adds nvme-loop which allows to access local devices
exported as NVMe over Fabrics namespaces. This module can be useful for
easy evaluation, testing and also feature experimentation.

To createa nvme-loop device you need to configure the NVMe target to
export a loop port (see the nvmetcli documentaton for that) and then
connect to it using

	nvme connect-all -t loop

which requires the very latest nvme-cli version with Fabrics support.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJay Freyensee <james.p.freyensee@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMing Lin <ming.l@ssi.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarSteve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
parent a07b4970
......@@ -13,4 +13,14 @@ config NVME_TARGET
To configure the NVMe target you probably want to use the nvmetcli
tool from http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/nvmetcli.git.
config NVME_TARGET_LOOP
tristate "NVMe loopback device support"
depends on BLK_DEV_NVME
select NVME_TARGET
select NVME_FABRICS
select SG_POOL
help
This enables the NVMe loopback device support, which can be useful
to test NVMe host and target side features.
If unsure, say N.
obj-$(CONFIG_NVME_TARGET) += nvmet.o
obj-$(CONFIG_NVME_TARGET_LOOP) += nvme-loop.o
nvmet-y += core.o configfs.o admin-cmd.o io-cmd.o fabrics-cmd.o \
discovery.o
nvme-loop-y += loop.o
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