TCP transport relies on the routing table to determine which source
address and interface to use when making a connection. Currently, there
is no way to tell from userspace where a connection was made. This
patch exposes the actual source address using a new field named
"src_addr=" in the "address" attribute.
This is needed to diagnose and identify connectivity issues. With the
source address we can infer the interface associated with each
connection.
This was tested with nvme-cli 2.0 to verify it does not have any
adverse effect. The new "src_addr=" field will simply be displayed in
the output of the "list-subsys" or "list -v" commands as shown here.
$ nvme list-subsys
nvme-subsys0 - NQN=nqn.2014-08.org.nvmexpress.discovery
\
+- nvme0 tcp traddr=192.168.56.1,trsvcid=8009,src_addr=192.168.56.101 live
Signed-off-by: Martin Belanger <martin.belanger@dell.com>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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