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25.\" $FreeBSD$
26.Dd July 11, 2015
27.Dt CTL 4
28.Os
29.Sh NAME
30.Nm ctl
31.Nd CAM Target Layer / iSCSI target
32.Sh SYNOPSIS
33To compile this driver into the kernel,
34place the following line in your
35kernel configuration file:
36.Bd -ragged -offset indent
37.Cd "device iscsi"
38.Cd "device ctl"
39.Ed
40.Pp
41Alternatively, to load the driver as a
42module at boot time, place the following line in
43.Xr loader.conf 5 :
44.Bd -literal -offset indent
45ctl_load="YES"
46.Ed
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48The
49.Nm
50subsystem provides SCSI disk and processor emulation.
51It supports features such as:
52.Pp
53.Bl -bullet -compact
54.It
55Disk and processor device emulation
56.It
57Tagged queueing
58.It
59SCSI task attribute support (ordered, head of queue, simple tags)
60.It
61SCSI implicit command ordering support
62.It
63Full task management support (abort, LUN reset, target reset, etc.)
64.It
65Support for multiple ports
66.It
67Support for multiple simultaneous initiators
68.It
69Support for multiple simultaneous backing stores
70.It
71Support for VMWare VAAI: COMPARE AND WRITE, XCOPY, WRITE SAME,
72and UNMAP commands
73.It
74Support for Microsoft ODX: POPULATE TOKEN/WRITE USING TOKEN,
75WRITE SAME, and UNMAP commands
76.It
77Persistent reservation support
78.It
79Mode sense/select support
80.It
81Error injection support
82.It
83All I/O handled in-kernel, no userland context switch overhead
84.El
85.Pp
86It also serves as a kernel component of the native iSCSI target.
87.Sh SYSCTL VARIABLES
88The following variables are available as both
89.Xr sysctl 8
90variables and
91.Xr loader 8
92tunables:
93.Bl -tag -width indent
94.It Va kern.cam.ctl.iscsi.debug
95Verbosity level for log messages from the kernel part of iSCSI target.
96Set to 0 to disable logging or 1 to warn about potential problems.
97Larger values enable debugging output.
98Defaults to 1.
99.It Va kern.cam.ctl.iscsi.maxcmdsn_delta
100The number of outstanding commands to advertise to the iSCSI initiator.
101Technically, it is the difference between ExpCmdSN and MaxCmdSN fields
102in the iSCSI PDU.
103Defaults to 256.
104.It Va kern.cam.ctl.iscsi.ping_timeout
105The number of seconds to wait for the iSCSI initiator to respond to a NOP-In
106PDU.
107In the event that there is no response within that time the session gets
108forcibly terminated.
109Set to 0 to disable sending NOP-In PDUs.
110Defaults to 5.
111.Sh SEE ALSO
112.Xr ctladm 8 ,
113.Xr ctld 8 ,
114.Xr ctlstat 8
115.Sh HISTORY
116The
117.Nm
118subsystem first appeared in
119.Fx 9.1 .
120.Sh AUTHORS
121The
122.Nm
123subsystem was written by
124.An Kenneth Merry Aq Mt ken@FreeBSD.org .
125