[dm-devel] [PATCH resend] ALUA support for PURE FlashArray

[Christophe Varoqui]

Applied,
thanks.

On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 3:53 PM Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez at gmail.com>
wrote:

> From: Brian Bunker <brian at purestorage.com>
>
> Hello all,
>
> It has been some time since we updated our PURE FlashArray
> configuration. The Linux vendors that we had been seeing in the field
> were using very old versions of multipath-tools, so we haven’t needed to
> change anything for some time. With the release of RHEL8, some of our
> earlier values have been lost by upstream changes.
>
> In addition we have our Active Cluster feature which leverages ALUA
> since our last patch. The ALUA confguration will work for all
> FlashArrays with or without Active Cluster.
>
> We are changing 3 things.
>
> 1. ALUA support
> 2. Fast fail timeout from the default of 5 seconds to 10 seconds (We
>    need this for our FC NPIV port migration).
> 3. Maximum sector size of 4MB. Some Linux vendors don’t honor the block
>    limits VPD page of INQUIRY).
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
> Cc: Christophe Varoqui <christophe.varoqui at opensvc.com>
> Cc: DM-DEVEL ML <dm-devel at redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Brian Bunker <brian at purestorage.com>
> ---
>  libmultipath/hwtable.c | 7 ++++++-
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/libmultipath/hwtable.c b/libmultipath/hwtable.c
> index 16627ec..9bc59f1 100644
> --- a/libmultipath/hwtable.c
> +++ b/libmultipath/hwtable.c
> @@ -1039,7 +1039,12 @@ static struct hwentry default_hw[] = {
>                 /* FlashArray */
>                 .vendor        = "PURE",
>                 .product       = "FlashArray",
> -               .pgpolicy      = MULTIBUS,
> +               .pgpolicy      = GROUP_BY_PRIO,
> +               .pgfailback    = -FAILBACK_IMMEDIATE,
> +               .hwhandler     = "1 alua",
> +               .prio_name     = PRIO_ALUA,
> +               .fast_io_fail  = 10,
> +               .max_sectors_kb = 4096,
>         },
>         /*
>          * Huawei
> --
> 2.24.1
>
> Brian Bunker
> SW Eng
> brian at purestorage.com
>
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