[dm-devel] 2.6.10-rc1-udm1: multipath work in progress

[christophe.varoqui at free.fr]

Selon Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb at suse.de>:

> On 2004-11-08T14:10:10, christophe.varoqui at free.fr wrote:
>
> > > Christophe, any particular wishes on how to implement this in the
> > > multipath-tools? Would you want an additional helper to call to
> > > answer the question of which PG should be active or bypassed first?
> > >
> > I guess you lost me one more time, as I thought the response to this
> > particular question was under userspace responsability.
> >
>
> Yes, that's why I asked how you'd want to implement it in the
> multipath-tools. /sbin/multipath must find out somehow which PG to
> activate first, right?
>
Right : it already does.

The logic is based on the priority framework.
You can plug-in path-prioritizer callouts.

Default path prio is 1 for a valid path, 0 for a failing path.
So by default the pg with most active paths wins.

I also took a pick at a prioritizer that brings into the equation the number of
LU in control of a controler, so that it can balance the LU across all
controlers available.

I guess you can alter the pg priorities the way anyone can imagine based on that
framework. With the current kernel driver, PG are fed in params strings in
top-down summed-path-priority order.

Feeding those priority numbers directly into the params strings and keep the PG
statically ordered shouldn't be too invasive a change.

regards,
cvaroqui