[dm-devel] multipathd will not set the iscsi session tmo after iscsi sesstion recovery

[jianchao.wang]

Hi Ben

Thanks for your kindly response.

On 04/18/2018 03:26 AM, Benjamin Marzinski wrote:
>>> When the iscsi session fails and do the recovery, iscsid will set parameters again.
>>> But this will overwrite the ones which has been set by multipathd.
>>> And multipathd will not set the iscsi session tmo parameters when path down and up.
> I would rather see if iscsid could skip reseting the parameters if they have
> been changed outside the program. If not, then multipathd could check
> and reset the parameters whenever a path comes back up.  But if iscsid
> is resetting it there, might it not be resetting it elsewhere?

As I know, iscsid would only set the parameters during setup the session.
multipathd + iscsid is common case, it is really worthy to provide a fix
for the parameter reseting when path up/down.

Thanks
Jianchao