[dm-devel] dm mpath: remove unusable kmultipathd work queue

Mike Snitzer snitzer at redhat.com
Thu Nov 3 14:48:26 UTC 2016


On Thu, Nov 03 2016 at  6:29am -0400,
tang.junhui at zte.com.cn <tang.junhui at zte.com.cn> wrote:

> From: "tang.junhui" <tang.junhui at zte.com.cn>
> 
> kmultipathd work queue is used to process queued IOs for multipath
> target when IOs need to retry, but now these IOs have been requeued
> to block queue of DM device, hence this work queue is not useful
> anymore, and this patch deletes it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: tang.junhui <tang.junhui at zte.com.cn>

Nack, you must be looking at older code.  bio-based DM multipath makes
use of kmultipathd.

When suggesting changes please always make sure you're working with the
latest upstream Linux code.




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