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dm mpath: add retry pg init
authorDave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:47:53 +0000 (22:47 +0100)
committerAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:01:18 +0000 (02:01 +0100)
commitc9e45581ad530cc1ca4b5d4add44a5b625234ada
tree3d5ddc7762e9c3d3da78f8c4d98047f3f108dd98
parent636d5786c45414fd8e48f2a2325be072274fdba4
dm mpath: add retry pg init

This patch allows a failed path group initialisation command to be retried.

It adds a generic MP_RETRY flag and a "pg_init_retries" feature to
device-mapper multipath which limits the number of retries.

1. A hw handler sends a path initialization command to the storage and
the command completes with an error code indicating the command
should be retried.

2. The hardware handler calls dm_pg_init_complete() with MP_RETRY
set in err_flags to ask the dm multipath core to retry.

3. If the retry limit has not been exceeded, pg_init() is retried.
Otherwise fail_path() is called.

If you are using the userspace multipath-tools or device-mapper-multipath
package, you can set pg_init_retries in the 'device' section of your
/etc/multipath.conf file. For example:

features                "2 pg_init_retries 7"

The number of PG retries attempted is reported in the 'dmsetup status' output.

Signed-off-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Acked-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
drivers/md/dm-hw-handler.h
drivers/md/dm-mpath.c