[dm-devel] [PATCH 0/4] NVMe path failover update

Guan Junxiong guanjunxiong at huawei.com
Fri Sep 15 09:59:55 UTC 2017


Hi Hannes,

Thanks for improving DM-multipath over NVMe.  Please find my comment.

Cheers
Guan Junxiong



On 2017/9/15 14:30, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> the current NVMe support is fairly rudimentary, and we've had reports
> about spurious path failures under high load.
> Which is a bit disappointing, seeing that high load is exactly what
> NVMe is about ...
> So here's a patchset to clean up the situation somewhat.
> In particular:
> - I've fixed up the discovery to fall in line with the other transports,
>   like filling out the sg_id fields (so that we're not greeted with weird
>   hashes in the topology output)

Great, that is something I want to touch.  IMO, it's better to use a union
fields such as nvme_id fields which shows the true topology of NVMe/NVMf storage
such as: host NQN ->portid->subsytem NQN ->controller ID ->namespace id .







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