[dm-devel] [PATCH v2 0/4] Make prio timeouts work like checkers

[Martin Wilck]

On Thu, 2023-08-31 at 16:57 -0500, Benjamin Marzinski wrote:
> This patchset changes how prioritizers set their timeouts, to make
> them
> match how the checker functions work, and also cleans up some minor
> timeout issues.
> 
> This patchset has been entirely reworked based on suggestions from
> Martin Wilck: Patch [1/4] no longer rechecks the timeout values at
> all
> in the checker loop. Patch [2/4] makes the checker_timeout a path
> variable, following Martin's suggestion. Patch [3/4] roughly
> corresponds
> to patches 2, 3 & 4 of the previous patchset, except that it uses the
> path's checker_timeout variable to cleanup a number of function
> calls,
> and incidentally fixes the issues in detect_prio() and the
> path_latency
> prioritizer. Patch [4/4] is new. It makes the datacore checker
> respect
> the checker timeout as well, if no timeout is specified in the prio
> args.
> 
> Benjamin Marzinski (4):
>   libmultipath: don't bother to recheck timeout
>   libmultipath: make checker_timeout a path variable
>   libmultipath: make prioritizer timeouts work like checker timeouts
>   libmultipath: standardize datacore prioritizer timeouts
> 

For the series: Reviewed-by: Martin Wilck <mwilck at suse.com>