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[PATCH] dm: mpath: use noflush suspending
authorKiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Fri, 8 Dec 2006 10:41:10 +0000 (02:41 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org>
Fri, 8 Dec 2006 16:29:09 +0000 (08:29 -0800)
commit45e157206c732613d1c07e8ceeb1a3e497fb2abf
tree327d36f8aea80f3a7fed4bb43232155dd4835145
parent2e93ccc1933d08d32d9bde3784c3823e67b9b030
[PATCH] dm: mpath: use noflush suspending

Implement the pushback feature for the multipath target.

The pushback request is used when:
  1) there are no valid paths;
  2) queue_if_no_path was set;
  3) a suspend is being issued with the DMF_NOFLUSH_SUSPENDING flag.
     Otherwise bios are returned to applications with -EIO.

To check whether queue_if_no_path is specified or not, you need to check
both queue_if_no_path and saved_queue_if_no_path, because presuspend saves
the original queue_if_no_path value to saved_queue_if_no_path.

The check for 1 already exists in both map_io() and do_end_io().
So this patch adds __must_push_back() to check 2 and 3.

Test results:
See the test results in the preceding patch.

Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
drivers/md/dm-mpath.c