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For the cases where you want to export a device to a VM via a single I_T nexus and want to passthrough the PR handling to the physical/real device you have to use pscsi or tcmu. Both are good for specific uses however for the case where you want good performance, and are not using SCSI devices directly (using DM/MD RAID or multipath devices) then we are out of luck. The following patches allow iblock to mimimally hook into the LIO PR code and then pass the PR handling to the physical device. Note that like with the tcmu an pscsi cases it's only supported when you export the device via one I_T nexus. This patch adds the initial LIO callouts. The next patch will modify iblock. Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230407200551.12660-16-michael.christie@oracle.com Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.