[stgt] How to set device parameters?

[FUJITA Tomonori]

On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:39:09 +0100
juergen.kadidlo at exasol.com wrote:

> FUJITA Tomonori schrieb:
> > On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:06:55 +0100
> > juergen.kadidlo at exasol.com wrote:
> >
> >   
> >>  I'm trying to write a driver for a new type of iSCSI target and I'm 
> >> using "bs_rdwr.c" as a reference. However, there are some things that 
> >> are pretty unclear to me, and one of them is: how are parameters like 
> >> sector-size and number of sectors of a device determined? I could not 
> >> find code that queries these parameters from the target-device. And 
> >> tgtadm doesn't seem to support such params. However, there is not much 
> >> documentation, so I'm not sure about that...
> >>
> >> To be more precise: assuming that I want to use a file as a target, how 
> >> can I specify the sector-size and number of sectors/bytes?
> >>     
> >
> > I'm not sure what exactly you want to try. What is 'your anew type of
> > iSCSI target'?
> >   
> > Probably 'bs_rdwr.c' is a wrong reference for you. It just does I/Os
> > via system calls. There is not much SCSI stuff there.
> >   
> That's not easy to explain... you may call it a "Software SAN". It has 
> it's own interface and needs another daemon to talk to it, so it's not 
> possible to access it via a classic linux device file. I'd like to make 
> it accessible via iSCSI by writing a new driver (or backing-store, not 
> sure how you call it) that handles read/write/open/close requests by 
> talking to to that daemon through its native interface... That's why 
> I've chosen "bs_rdwr.c" as a reference.

ok.


> I thought it would be sufficient 
> to replace the functions there and use it as a 
> driver/backing-store/device-type. But maybe I didn't understand tgt's 
> architecture right... any help or documentation would be greatly 
> appreciated!
> > The device size (the number of sectors) is stored in struct
> > scsi_lu. The sector size depends on what device type you want to
> > use. If you are trying something with disk (sbc), then the following
> > patch might be useful for you:
> >
> > http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/stgt/2009-December/003469.html
> >   
> So, in order to set the correct sector-size I have to apply that patch 
> and start "tgtd" manually? I thought that "tgtd" is only started by 
> "tgt-admin"!?

You don't intend to push your modification into mainline, right?

If so, then you can just modify BLK_SHIFT in sbc.c.


> And what about the number of sectors of a device? I mean, 
> if a SCSI READ_CAPACITY command comes in, the device's sector-size and 
> number of sectors have to be determined somehow! I've looked at the 
> code, but couldn't find an explanation...

You still don't tell me what device type you are interested in so I
can't explain. If you want sbc, see sbc_read_capacity().


> After reading the patch description, I also wonder how to select the 
> type of device or driver. The "tgt-admin" man-page doesn't describe how 
> to choose between e.g. bs_rdwr, bs_ssc, bs_sg etc...

tgt-admin is a handy tool for common people. You are trying to do what
common people don't do. So see tgtadm.c about "bstype" option.
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