This patch optimizes the set target port group(STPG) command. During our
testing, we found that it is not optimal to send stpg command every time
the path group switch happens. This patch uses PREF (preferred target port)
bit with combination of flags passed by multipath user level tool to
optimize this behaviour. If PREF bit is set then it issues a STPG command,
otherwise it will let implicit transfer take place.
By default there is no change in the behaviour. User tool needs to pass the
parameter to make this change take effect. Patch has been tested on NetApp
E series storage.
Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@netapp.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
PREF bit indicates preferred target port group for accessing a logical
unit. This bit is used to optimize the STPG command handling.
Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@netapp.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
Handler expects only one parameter to set the flag ALUA_OPTIMIZE_STPG.
This flag is used to optimize the STPG behaviour. There is no change in
behaviour by default.
For example, to set the flag pass the following parameters from multipath.conf
hardware_handler "2 alua 1"
Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@netapp.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
This patch adds a check-condition in scsi_dh_alua handler for a retry.
Sometimes, I have seen attach failing due to this check-condition with
following error messages on NetApp E series storage.
Dec 7 15:31:01 nilgiris kernel: [102979.696673] scsi 3:0:2:9: alua: port group 00 rel port 01
Dec 7 15:31:01 nilgiris kernel: [102979.697082] scsi 3:0:2:9: alua: rtpg failed with 8000002
Dec 7 15:31:01 nilgiris kernel: [102979.697086] scsi 3:0:2:9: alua: rtpg sense code 06/2a/01
Dec 7 15:31:01 nilgiris kernel: [102979.697088] scsi 3:0:2:9: alua: not attached
Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
All the handlers have now implemented the match function so We don't need to
use scsi_dev_info any more for matching purposes.
Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
This patch introduces the match function for rdac device handler. Without
this, sometimes handler attach fails during the device_add. Included check for
TPGS bit before proceeding further. The match function was introduced by
commit 6c3633d08a
Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
This patch introduces the match function for hp_sw device handler. Included
the check for TPGS bit before proceeding further per Hannes comment. The
match function was introduced by commit
6c3633d08a
Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
This patch introduces the match function for emc device handler. Included
check for TPGS bit before proceeding further. The match function was
introduced by commit 6c3633d08a
Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
* 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: (230 commits)
Revert "tracing: Include module.h in define_trace.h"
irq: don't put module.h into irq.h for tracking irqgen modules.
bluetooth: macroize two small inlines to avoid module.h
ip_vs.h: fix implicit use of module_get/module_put from module.h
nf_conntrack.h: fix up fallout from implicit moduleparam.h presence
include: replace linux/module.h with "struct module" wherever possible
include: convert various register fcns to macros to avoid include chaining
crypto.h: remove unused crypto_tfm_alg_modname() inline
uwb.h: fix implicit use of asm/page.h for PAGE_SIZE
pm_runtime.h: explicitly requires notifier.h
linux/dmaengine.h: fix implicit use of bitmap.h and asm/page.h
miscdevice.h: fix up implicit use of lists and types
stop_machine.h: fix implicit use of smp.h for smp_processor_id
of: fix implicit use of errno.h in include/linux/of.h
of_platform.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h>
acpi: remove module.h include from platform/aclinux.h
miscdevice.h: delete unnecessary inclusion of module.h
device_cgroup.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h>
net: sch_generic remove redundant use of <linux/module.h>
net: inet_timewait_sock doesnt need <linux/module.h>
...
Fix up trivial conflicts (other header files, and removal of the ab3550 mfd driver) in
- drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dibx000_common.c
- drivers/media/video/{mt9m111.c,ov6650.c}
- drivers/mfd/ab3550-core.c
- include/linux/dmaengine.h
This patch corrects the retry interval for alua rtpg command. Purpose was to retry the commands in seconds.
But that was not happening. Reason is msleep takes argument in milliseconds.
Also added minor text after successful attach.
Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
The module.h header was implicitly present everywhere, so files
with no explicit include of the module infrastructure would build
anyway. We are now removing the implicit include, and so we need
to call out the module.h file that we need explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
This patch adds one more check-condition for scsi_dh_alua handler. Without
this, the handler attach fails sometimes during the discovery. I have noticed
this with NetApp E-Series storage with alua mode. Also removed some
unnecessary brackets {} for consistency.
Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
This patch adds couple more Vendor/Product IDs for RDAC.. There are no
functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
The alua device handler starts the first retry after 10 seconds,
and increases it times 10 for each round.
This leads to an unnecessary delay. This patch modifies it to
start after one second, and increase by a factor of two.
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
For Target Portal Group IDs occupying the full 2 bytes in the
RTPG response, the following group_id check in the alua_rtpg
routine always fails in scsi_dh_alua.c:
if (h->group_id == (ucp[2] << 8) + ucp[3]) {
This causes the ALUA handler to wrongly identify the AAS of
a specified device as well as incorrectly interpreting the
supported AAS of the target as seen by the following entries
in the /var/log/messages:
"alua: port group 3ea state A supports tousna"
"alua: port group 3e9 state A supports tousna"
This is because 'ucp' is wrongly declared in alua_rtpg as
a character pointer instead of an unsigned character pointer.
Signed-off-by: Martin George <marting@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
Avoid attaching a hardware handler to a device which is
already scheduled for deletion.
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
When activating a patch we should always update the TPGS state
as it might have changed in between.
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
Some device handler types are not tied to the vendor/model
but rather to a specific capability. Eg ALUA is supported
if the 'TPGS' setting in the standard inquiry is set.
This patch implements a 'match' callback for device handler
which supersedes the original vendor/model lookup and
implements the callback for the ALUA handler.
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
Fixup some kernel-doc comments to reference to the
correct function name.
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
Instead of issuing a standard inquiry from within the
alua device handler we can evaluate the TPGS setting from
the existing inquiry data of the sdev and save us the I/O.
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
rdac hardware handler assumes that there is one-to-one relation ship
between the host and the controller w.r.t lun. IOW, it does not
support "multiple storage partitions" within a storage.
Example:
HBA1 and HBA2 see lun 0 and 1 in storage A (1)
HBA3 and HBA4 see lun 0 and 1 in storage A (2)
HBA5 and HBA6 see lun 0 and 1 in storage A (3)
luns 0 and 1 in (1), (2) and (3) are totally different.
But, rdac handler treats the lun 0s (and lun 1s) as the same when
sending a mode select to the controller, which is wrong.
This patch makes the rdac hardware handler associate HBA and the
storage w.r.t lun (and not the host itself).
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
