Storage Management Agent is a gRPC server that provides an abstraction
layer above the SPDK RPC interface. The interface aims to provide a set
of methods for managing various protocols (e.g. NVMe, virtio-blk) while
hiding the details of a particular transport.
The external API is defined by `lib/python/spdk/sma/proto/sma.proto`
protobuf file. It defines the generic gRPC service methods and their
requests/responses. Device-specific messages are defined in their own
files. This patch also defines messages for creating NVMe and NVMe/TCP
devices.
This patch implements a gRPC service that delegates the work to a
specific device type. A DeviceManager is a class that implements some
of the methods defined by the service for a given type of devices (e.g.
NVMe, virtio-blk, NVMe/TCP, etc.). For now, only the RPC for creating a
device is implemented, others are added in subsequent patches.
The series implements the generic calls as well as their NVMe/TCP
implementation. Support for other devce types could be easily added by
creating a new device manager and defining its protobuf parameter
definition.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Sztyber <konrad.sztyber@intel.com>
Change-Id: I17cde3b31d3514878f1027cfcd112b48848f6123
Reviewed-on: https://review.spdk.io/gerrit/c/spdk/spdk/+/10273
Community-CI: Broadcom CI <spdk-ci.pdl@broadcom.com>
Community-CI: Mellanox Build Bot
Tested-by: SPDK CI Jenkins <sys_sgci@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Walker <benjamin.walker@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jim Harris <james.r.harris@intel.com>
