BlueStore's PMEMDevice backend targets byte-addressable persistent
memory exposed as a DAX device, in practice Intel Optane DC persistent
memory. Intel Optane has been discontinued since 2021 and there is no
mainstream replacement, so the backend has effectively no hardware left
to run on. It was always experimental and has seen no functional change
since the DML/DSA offload landed in 2022; every commit to it since has
been a formatting sweep.
Keeping it builds in a chain of dependencies that nothing else needs:
libpmem, libndctl and libdaxctl, plus dml for the DSA offload that only
works on a Sapphire Rapids CPU. Remove the backend and everything tied
to it.
RBD persistent write-back cache (WITH_RBD_RWL) still uses PMDK's
libpmemobj, so the pmdk submodule, WITH_SYSTEM_PMDK, Buildpmdk and
Findpmdk stay. WITH_SYSTEM_PMDK now depends on WITH_RBD_RWL alone, and
Buildpmdk no longer builds ndctl support.
- remove the WITH_BLUESTORE_PMEM option, HAVE_BLUESTORE_PMEM and
HAVE_LIBDML
- delete src/blk/pmem/PMEMDevice.{cc,h} and the pmem block_device_t
- drop the pmem value from the bdev_type option
- remove the --bluestore-pmem vstart flag
- drop the libpmem, libndctl and libdaxctl build deps from debian and
rpm, keeping libpmemobj for RWL
- delete the Finddml, Findndctl and Finddaxctl cmake modules
- remove the DSA/DML and ndctl documentation
Signed-off-by: Kefu Chai <k.chai@proxmox.com>
In order to enable the pmem character device, add ndctl=y to the parameter
of compiling the pmdk library when WITH_BLUESTORE_PMEM is ON. Because
after find_ndctl and find_daxctl are added, the dependency packages
required by WITH_BLUESTORE_PMEM and WITH_RBD_RWL become more different.
So separated these two. libpmem has no version required. libpmemobj
required version >=1.8.
Signed-off-by: Yin Congmin <congmin.yin@intel.com>
At first, libpmem was the only library. Later, pmem related libraries
such as libpmemobj and libpmem2 were gradually added. These libraries
were also integrated into one named pmdk. So rename to pmdk.
Signed-off-by: Yin Congmin <congmin.yin@intel.com>
