From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
To: Jack Wang <jinpuwang@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org,
axboe@kernel.dk, hch@infradead.org, sagi@grimberg.me,
bvanassche@acm.org, dledford@redhat.com,
danil.kipnis@cloud.ionos.com, jinpu.wang@cloud.ionos.com,
rpenyaev@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 00/25] RTRS (former IBTRS) rdma transport library and the corresponding RNBD (former IBNBD) rdma network block device
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2019 12:17:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191221101705.GD13335@unreal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191220155109.8959-1-jinpuwang@gmail.com>
On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 04:50:44PM +0100, Jack Wang wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> here is V5 of the RTRS (former IBTRS) rdma transport library and the
> corresponding RNBD (former IBNBD) rdma network block device.
>
> Main changes are the following:
> 1. Fix the security problem pointed out by Jason
> 2. Implement code-style/readability/API/etc suggestions by Bart van Assche
> 3. Rename IBTRS and IBNBD to RTRS and RNBD accordingly
> 4. Fileio mode support in rnbd-srv has been removed.
>
> The main functional change is a fix for the security problem pointed out by
> Jason and discussed both on the mailing list and during the last LPC RDMA MC 2019.
> On the server side we now invalidate in RTRS each rdma buffer before we hand it
> over to RNBD server and in turn to the block layer. A new rkey is generated and
> registered for the buffer after it returns back from the block layer and RNBD
> server. The new rkey is sent back to the client along with the IO result.
> The procedure is the default behaviour of the driver. This invalidation and
> registration on each IO causes performance drop of up to 20%. A user of the
> driver may choose to load the modules with this mechanism switched off
> (always_invalidate=N), if he understands and can take the risk of a malicious
> client being able to corrupt memory of a server it is connected to. This might
> be a reasonable option in a scenario where all the clients and all the servers
> are located within a secure datacenter.
>
> Huge thanks to Bart van Assche for the very detailed review of both RNBD and
> RTRS. These included suggestions for style fixes, better readability and
> documentation, code simplifications, eliminating usage of deprecated APIs,
> too many to name.
>
> The transport library and the network block device using it have been renamed to
> RTRS and RNBD accordingly in order to reflect the fact that they are based on
> the rdma subsystem and not bound to InfiniBand only.
>
> Fileio mode support in rnbd-server is not so efficent as pointed out by Bart,
> and we can use loop device in between if there is need, hence we just
> removed the fileio mode support.
Thanks for pushing the code forward.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-21 10:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-20 15:50 [PATCH v5 00/25] RTRS (former IBTRS) rdma transport library and the corresponding RNBD (former IBNBD) rdma network block device Jack Wang
2019-12-20 15:50 ` [PATCH v5 01/25] sysfs: export sysfs_remove_file_self() Jack Wang
2019-12-20 16:26 ` Jinpu Wang
2019-12-20 15:50 ` [PATCH v5 02/25] rtrs: public interface header to establish RDMA connections Jack Wang
2019-12-21 10:15 ` Leon Romanovsky
2019-12-21 14:27 ` Danil Kipnis
2019-12-22 7:36 ` Leon Romanovsky
2019-12-23 7:38 ` Jinpu Wang
2019-12-23 8:04 ` Leon Romanovsky
2019-12-23 10:31 ` Jinpu Wang
2019-12-20 15:50 ` [PATCH v5 03/25] rtrs: private headers with rtrs protocol structs and helpers Jack Wang
2019-12-20 15:50 ` [PATCH v5 04/25] rtrs: core: lib functions shared between client and server modules Jack Wang
2019-12-20 15:50 ` [PATCH v5 05/25] rtrs: client: private header with client structs and functions Jack Wang
2019-12-20 15:50 ` [PATCH v5 06/25] rtrs: client: main functionality Jack Wang
2019-12-20 15:50 ` [PATCH v5 07/25] rtrs: client: statistics functions Jack Wang
2019-12-20 15:50 ` [PATCH v5 08/25] rtrs: client: sysfs interface functions Jack Wang
2019-12-20 15:50 ` [PATCH v5 09/25] rtrs: server: private header with server structs and functions Jack Wang
2019-12-20 15:50 ` [PATCH v5 10/25] rtrs: server: main functionality Jack Wang
2019-12-20 15:50 ` [PATCH v5 11/25] rtrs: server: statistics functions Jack Wang
2019-12-20 15:50 ` [PATCH v5 12/25] rtrs: server: sysfs interface functions Jack Wang
2019-12-20 15:50 ` [PATCH v5 13/25] rtrs: include client and server modules into kernel compilation Jack Wang
2019-12-20 15:50 ` [PATCH v5 14/25] rtrs: a bit of documentation Jack Wang
2019-12-20 15:50 ` [PATCH v5 15/25] rnbd: private headers with rnbd protocol structs and helpers Jack Wang
2019-12-20 15:51 ` [PATCH v5 16/25] rnbd: client: private header with client structs and functions Jack Wang
2019-12-20 15:51 ` [PATCH v5 17/25] rnbd: client: main functionality Jack Wang
2019-12-20 15:51 ` [PATCH v5 18/25] rnbd: client: sysfs interface functions Jack Wang
2019-12-20 15:51 ` [PATCH v5 19/25] rnbd: server: private header with server structs and functions Jack Wang
2019-12-20 15:51 ` [PATCH v5 20/25] rnbd: server: main functionality Jack Wang
2019-12-20 15:51 ` [PATCH v5 21/25] rnbd: server: functionality for IO submission to file or block dev Jack Wang
2019-12-20 15:51 ` [PATCH v5 22/25] rnbd: server: sysfs interface functions Jack Wang
2019-12-23 8:14 ` Leon Romanovsky
2019-12-23 8:33 ` Jinpu Wang
2019-12-20 15:51 ` [PATCH v5 23/25] rnbd: include client and server modules into kernel compilation Jack Wang
2019-12-20 15:51 ` [PATCH v5 24/25] rnbd: a bit of documentation Jack Wang
2019-12-20 15:51 ` [PATCH v5 25/25] MAINTAINERS: Add maintainers for RNBD/RTRS modules Jack Wang
2019-12-22 9:55 ` Gal Pressman
2019-12-23 7:20 ` Jinpu Wang
2019-12-21 10:17 ` Leon Romanovsky [this message]
2020-01-02 18:18 ` [PATCH v5 00/25] RTRS (former IBTRS) rdma transport library and the corresponding RNBD (former IBNBD) rdma network block device Jason Gunthorpe
2020-01-03 12:39 ` Jinpu Wang
2020-01-03 16:28 ` Bart Van Assche
2020-01-06 17:07 ` Jinpu Wang
2020-01-07 10:56 ` Jinpu Wang
2020-01-16 16:41 ` Bart Van Assche
2020-01-16 16:46 ` Jinpu Wang
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