For multipath SAN devices, verify that the device is capable of being
opened (i.e. that all URIs are parseable and that at least one path is
alive) and thereafter retry indefinitely to reopen the device as
needed.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
When all SAN targets are completely unreachable, there will be a
natural delay between reopening attempts due to the network connection
timeout on the unreachable targets.
However, some SAN targets may accept connections instantly and report
a temporary unavailability by e.g. failing the TEST UNIT READY
command. If all targets are behaving this way then there will be no
natural delay, and we will attempt to saturate the network with
connection attempts.
Fix by introducing a small delay between attempts.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Allow the SAN retry count to be configured via the ${san-retry}
setting, defaulting to the current value of 10 retries if not
specified.
Note that setting a retry count of zero is inadvisable, since iSCSI
targets in particular will often report spurious errors such as "power
on occurred" for the first few commands.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Add basic support for multipath block devices. The "sanboot" and
"sanhook" commands now accept a list of SAN URIs. We open all URIs
concurrently. The first connection to become available for issuing
block device commands is marked as the active path and used for all
subsequent commands; all other connections are then closed. Whenever
the active path fails, we reopen all URIs and repeat the process.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The SCSI layer currently implements a retry loop in order to retry
commands that fail due to spurious "error" conditions such as "power
on occurred". Move this retry loop to the generic SAN device layer:
this allow for retries due to other transient error conditions such as
an iSCSI target having dropped the connection due to inactivity.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The concept of the SAN drive number is meaningful only in a BIOS
environment, where it represents the INT13 drive number (0x80 for the
first hard disk). We retain this concept in a UEFI environment to
allow for a simple way for iPXE commands to refer to SAN drives.
Centralise the concept of the default drive number, since it is shared
between all supported environments.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
