linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH blktests v1 2/3] nvme/rc: Avoid triggering host nvme-cli autoconnect

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Date:   Tue, 20 Jun 2023 19:43:35 +0200
From:   Daniel Wagner <dwagner@...e.de>
To:     Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>
Cc:     linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@...dia.com>,
        Shin'ichiro Kawasaki <shinichiro@...tmail.com>,
        Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>,
        James Smart <jsmart2021@...il.com>,
        Martin Belanger <Martin.Belanger@...l.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH blktests v1 2/3] nvme/rc: Avoid triggering host nvme-cli
 autoconnect

On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 05:07:43PM +0300, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
> 
> > When the host has enabled the udev/systemd autoconnect services for the
> > fc transport it interacts with blktests and make tests break.
> > 
> > nvme-cli learned to ignore connects attemps when using the
> > --context command line option paired with a volatile configuration. Thus
> > we can mark all the resources created by blktests and avoid any
> > interaction with the systemd autoconnect scripts.
> 
> Hmm... is this hapenning with non-fc as well?

I haven't seen a problem for TCP or RDMA yet but in principle it should also
exists. I can do some tracing to see if we have also problem thern. Two of the
udev rule match on the subsystem and the event type.

> > +_nvme_cli_supports_context() {
> > +	if ! nvme connect --help 2>&1 | grep -q context > /dev/null; then
> > +		    return 1
> > +	fi
> > +	return 0
> > +}
> 
> Not a great way to check support.

Yeah, agree, it's a bit dodgy. I'll try to figure out a different way. Any
suggestions?