Re: [PATCH 00/11] Allow creation of vHBA by parent_wwnn/wwpn or fabric_name

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On 12/03/2016 07:09 AM, John Ferlan wrote:

ping?

Sorry, I seem to have lost your initial cover letter so responding here...


On 11/18/2016 09:26 AM, John Ferlan wrote:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1349696

Lots of details in the bz, but essentially the problem is that providing
a "parent" scsi_hostX value has drawbacks on reboots because what was
scsi_hostX could turn into scsi_hostY on subsequent reboots.

So add the ability to use the parent wwnn/wwpn or fabric_wwn as 'search'
criteria in order to create either non persistent vHBA's via nodedev or
persistent vHBA's via storage pools.

I've not looked at all the patches in detail, but I have been giving them a fair bit of testing and haven't noticed any problems thus far.

Once question I do have is related to volume detection in vport-based pools. Currently when there are multiple paths to a LUN only the active ones are displayed in the pool. Inactive paths are ignored since saferead() fails in src/storage/storage_backend.c:virStorageBackendDetectBlockVolFormatFD(). Without the inactive paths, there would be no path to the LUN if it was trespassed. I made the below hack to virStorageBackendUpdateVolTargetInfo() to show the inactive paths too, and was able to pass those to the guest allowing it to handle multipathing. Is there a reason the inactive paths are ignored?

Regards,
Jim

Index: libvirt-2.5.0/src/storage/storage_backend.c
===================================================================
--- libvirt-2.5.0.orig/src/storage/storage_backend.c
+++ libvirt-2.5.0/src/storage/storage_backend.c
@@ -1941,8 +1941,11 @@ virStorageBackendUpdateVolTargetInfo(vir

     if (withBlockVolFormat) {
         if ((ret = virStorageBackendDetectBlockVolFormatFD(target, fd,
-                                                           readflags)) < 0)
+                                                           readflags)) < 0) {
+            if (ret == -2)
+                ret = 0;
             goto cleanup;
+        }
     }

  cleanup:

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