On 8/2/05, christophe varoqui < christophe.varoqui@xxxxxxx> wrote:Does this mean that "group_by_serial" utilizes a "default_prio_callout" program/script as well, or is there another callout (or something totally different that I'm missing)?On mar, 2005-08-02 at 15:07 -0400, goggin, edward wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 09:37:14 -0500
> "Christopher C. Weis" < ccweis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote
>
> > I have a multipath SAN environment with storage controllers that are
> > active/active. However, the controllers are not active/active at the
> > LUN-level without a performance penalty, meaning if two
> > servers want to
> > see the same LUN (as in a clustered filesystem environment), they both
> > need to be using the same controller. I'm trying to figure
> > out a way to
> > statically "order" the paths so that I can copy a config to all of the
> > nodes using the CFS.
> >
> > >From what I've read, in a single-server environment with controllers
> > such as the ones I'm dealing with, the path_grouping_policy should be
> > set to "group_by_serial", which should work fine, but in a clustered
> > environment, I need to be sure that the path ordering is the same.
> >
> > Are there any path_selectors, other than round-robin, that might
> > accomplish this? Any other ideas?
> >
>
> One was is to configure each multipath to have two groups with one group
> having a higher priority than the other based on whether the path accesses
> the fast path controller. The assignment of the highest priority path group
> is non deterministic when using the "group_by_serial" path grouping policy.
>
> Seems like you want to use the "group_by_priority" path grouping policy and
> create and get_priority executable which when invoked will return a 1 for
> fast path and 0 for slow path. See the code for mpath_prio_emc, the
> get_priority executable for the EMC CLARiiON array in
> multipath-tools/path_priority/pp_emc/pp_emc.c.
>
Yes, also note "group_by_priority" path grouping policy may be overkill
for the context. PG produced by "group_by_serial" can be sorted with an
adequate prioritizer too.
I've verified that by writing my own "default_prio_callout" script I can achieve what I want with both the "group_by_priority" and "failover" policies. Once I get done testing/tweaking the script, I'll post it in case anyone else wants it.
I can't seem to make group_by_serial work, although I'm not sure I understand this policy very well. It sounds like it's supposed to make all paths that go to a particular controller (serial?) be in the same priority group. For me, it's no different than multibus. Probably my misunderstanding, so I'm open to any suggestions...
Thanks for all the help everyone.
~Chris
