[PATCH 2/2] nvmet: Add port transport active flag

[Johannes Thumshirn]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 12:48:15PM +0200, Max Gurtovoy wrote:
> 
> 
> On 3/19/2018 12:11 PM, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 09:47:47AM +0000, Israel Rukshin wrote:
> > > tractive port flag means that nvmet transport is active and ready for
> > > receiving requests from host.
> > > It differ from enabled port state (port with subsystem symbolic link)
> > differs^
> > 
> > 
> > Also, this would need an accompanying nvmetcli change as well.
> 
> Are you reffereing to the current implementation ?
> Which change is in your mind ?
> 
> Currently the tractive flag will become true if the initial port
> configuration will succeed (also using nvmetcli).
> One can create a service/timer/script to check periodically the tractive
> flag and echo 1 to it in case needed (for persistent target configuration).

No I was thinking of a nvmetcli command to administratively toggle the
tractive flag from within nvmetcli.

It is exported via configfs 'CONFIGFS_ATTR(nvmet_, tractive);' so
what's the purpose of a user controllable knob that can't be
controlled by the tool that usually configures these?

Byte,
	   Johannes

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