[dm-devel] [PATCH 2/4] multipath-tools: replace GROUP_BY_SERIAL with MULTIBUS for IBM 3542 and 2105

Christophe Varoqui christophe.varoqui at opensvc.com
Mon Oct 3 11:02:05 UTC 2016


Hi Xose,

Group by serial sure can make sense for hardware not capable of multibus.

Can you or Hannes (listed as maintainer for IBM) confirm the concerned IBM
arrays are multibus capable ?

Best regards,
Christophe Varoqui
OpenSVC

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 7:58 PM, Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez at gmail.com>
wrote:

> It doesn't make any sense to have, by default, GROUP_BY_SERIAL in real
> hardware.
>
> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare at suse.de>
> Cc: Christophe Varoqui <christophe.varoqui at opensvc.com>
> Cc: device-mapper development <dm-devel at redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez at gmail.com>
> ---
>  libmultipath/hwtable.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/libmultipath/hwtable.c b/libmultipath/hwtable.c
> index aa3ea9b..72b5e1d 100644
> --- a/libmultipath/hwtable.c
> +++ b/libmultipath/hwtable.c
> @@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ static struct hwentry default_hw[] = {
>                 /* DS4200 / FAStT200 */
>                 .vendor        = "IBM",
>                 .product       = "^3542",
> -               .pgpolicy      = GROUP_BY_SERIAL,
> +               .pgpolicy      = MULTIBUS,
>                 .pgfailback    = FAILBACK_UNDEF,
>         },
>         {
> @@ -451,7 +451,7 @@ static struct hwentry default_hw[] = {
>                 .vendor        = "IBM",
>                 .product       = "^2105",
>                 .no_path_retry = NO_PATH_RETRY_QUEUE,
> -               .pgpolicy      = GROUP_BY_SERIAL,
> +               .pgpolicy      = MULTIBUS,
>                 .pgfailback    = FAILBACK_UNDEF,
>         },
>         {
> --
> 2.7.4
>
>
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