IO abort recovery using the IO Cancel command with NVMe over Fabrics

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Author(s)/Presenter(s):

John Meneghini

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Presentation

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Focus Areas

Networked Storage

Abstract

This presentation will discuss the work done to improve the timeout-recovery-abort protocol in NVMe. NVMexpress.org Technical Proposal 4097 made changes to the NVMe Abort Command and added a new IO Cancel Command to the NVMe 1.4  and 2.0 specifications. Support for these changes are being implemented in Data ONTAP, Linux, ESX, and SPDK.  This presentation will include a short demonstration of a working IO Cancel command implementation using a Linux host with an Data ONTAP NVMe/FC controller.