[libvirt] [PATCH 00/11] Allow creation of vHBA by parent_wwnn/wwpn or fabric_name

[John Ferlan]

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John

On 11/18/2016 09:26 AM, John Ferlan wrote:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1349696
> 
> Lots of details in the bz, but essentially the problem is that providing
> a "parent" scsi_hostX value has drawbacks on reboots because what was
> scsi_hostX could turn into scsi_hostY on subsequent reboots.
> 
> So add the ability to use the parent wwnn/wwpn or fabric_wwn as 'search'
> criteria in order to create either non persistent vHBA's via nodedev or
> persistent vHBA's via storage pools.
> 
> NB: Documentation of this "process" is on the wiki:
> 
> http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/NPIV_in_libvirt
> 
> and would need to be adjusted once/if the changes are accepted.
> 
> 
> John Ferlan (11):
>   nodedev: Fix crash in libvirtd on vHBA creation path
>   nodedev: Create helpers to search for vport capable nodedevs
>   nodedev: Add ability to find a vport capable vHBA
>   nodedev: Add the ability to create vHBA by parent wwnn/wwpn or
>     fabric_wwn
>   conf: Add more fchost search fields for storage pool vHBA creation
>   iscsi: Clean up createVport exit paths
>   iscsi: Change order of checks in createVport
>   iscsi: Converge more createVport checks
>   util: Remove need for extra VIR_FREE's in virGetFCHostNameByWWN
>   util: Introduce virGetFCHostNameByFabricWWN
>   iscsi: Add parent wwnn/wwpn or fabric capability for createVport
> 
>  docs/schemas/basictypes.rng          |  15 +++
>  docs/schemas/nodedev.rng             |  15 +++
>  src/conf/node_device_conf.c          | 234 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  src/conf/node_device_conf.h          |  17 +++
>  src/conf/storage_conf.c              |  21 +++-
>  src/conf/storage_conf.h              |   3 +
>  src/libvirt_private.syms             |   4 +
>  src/node_device/node_device_driver.c |  28 ++++-
>  src/storage/storage_backend_scsi.c   |  86 +++++++------
>  src/util/virutil.c                   | 113 ++++++++++++-----
>  src/util/virutil.h                   |   4 +
>  11 files changed, 439 insertions(+), 101 deletions(-)
>