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Subject: [PATCH v2 02/11] transport-fabrics: introduce Virtio Qualified Name
Add VQN section. The VQN is a little different from iSCSI/NVMe-oF on style limitation. Because iSCSI/NVMe-of is storage specific protocol, the full string IQN(for iSCSI/iSER) and NQN(for NVMe-oF) represents a "storage access address". However, Virtio Over Fabrics works as transport layer rather than device layer, a URL style string is better to Virtio Over Fabrics. For example: virtio-of://blk-resource/nvme-pool/849a39ad-8d7b-4a7a-adb6-e7407ace532c virtio-of://blk-resource/hdd-pool/238151a7-acd7-4621-bbdf-382ddbccb6a1 ... virtio-of://crypto-resource/25307f22-e5a8-4ea2-b7ca-79f5c3bebc3c A hunam readable VQN is helpful to maintain/debug/distinguish. Signed-off-by: zhenwei pi <pizhenwei@bytedance.com> --- transport-fabrics.tex | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/transport-fabrics.tex b/transport-fabrics.tex index 0dc031b..26b0192 100644 --- a/transport-fabrics.tex +++ b/transport-fabrics.tex @@ -29,3 +29,19 @@ \section{Virtio Over Fabrics}\label{sec:Virtio Transport Options / Virtio Over F initiator to generate a host interrupt. It is the responsibility of the host fabric interface to generate host interrupts. \end{itemize} + +\subsection{Virtio Qualified Name}\label{sec:Virtio Transport Options / Virtio Over Fabrics / Virtio Qualified Name} +Virtio Qualified Names (VQNs) are used to uniquely describe an initiator or a +target for the purposes of identification. + +A VQN is encoded as a string of Unicode characters with the following +properties: + +\begin{itemize} +\item The encoding is UTF-8 (refer to RFC 3629). +\item The characters dash('-'), dot ('.'), slash('/') and colon(':') are used +in formatting. +\item The maximum name is 256 bytes in length. +\item The string is null terminated. +\item There is no strict style limitation. +\end{itemize} -- 2.25.1
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