[libvirt] [PATCH 0/2] Fix fc_host SCSI pool refresh issues

[John Ferlan]

On 11/19/2014 03:52 PM, John Ferlan wrote:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1152382
> 
> Fix a couple of fc_host SCSI refresh pool issues.  The first patch I found
> while working on the second.
> 
> It turns out the existing logic to handle 'retval' wasn't correct. Using
> a default of zero, resulted in a couple of cases where success was returned
> when it shouldn't have been. The one that caused the issues was when the
> search of the /sys/bus/scsi/devices/ tree found a new vHBA related device
> and then "assumed" that the 'block' device would be found in the directory.
> That assumption resulted in a 10 second pause in virStorageBackendStablePath
> failing to find a stable path to the device "/dev/(null)" because the
> getBlockDevice returned zero and a NULL block_device and the processLU
> code only failed when the return was < 0.  The processLU code had similar
> issues with retval processing which are also fixed.
> 
> The second patch provides a mechanism to attempt to fill the pool of a 
> libvirt created VPORT_CREATE'd vHBA. The creation takes some time for the
> udev callback mechanism to find and configure. By adding a thread to
> attempt to retry to find the LU's (with any luck) after the udev processing
> has had time to do something means a subsequent 'vol-list' on the pool may
> actually find a volume without needing to attempt a 'pool-refresh' again.
> It's too bad the udev mechanism didn't provide a way to indicate it has
> completed setting up a specific device.
> 
> John Ferlan (2):
>   storage: Fix issue finding LU's when block doesn't exist
>   storage: Add thread to refresh for createVport
> 
>  src/storage/storage_backend_scsi.c | 147 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 128 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
> 


Pushed - thanks for the review


John