IBM x460 with directly attached IBM DS4300 (turbo) multipathd TUR path checker problem

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Hi!

 I faced with weird problem using multipath-tools and IBM DS4300 turbo storage 
system.

|      Ctrl A |--ptp fc--| qla2400 HBA-->IBM x460 (first brick) |
|DS4300(turbo)|          | IBM x460 (dual brick configuration)  |
|      Ctrl B |--ptp fc--| qla2400 HBA-->IBM x460 (second brick)| 
 
 Operating system:              SLES9 SP3 x86 (32-bit)
 HBA drivers:                   Native SuSe kernel driver (qla2400)
 DS4300 target type:            Linux (AVT is enabled)

 The problem: Unpredictable path failures detected by TUR path checker, 
 which is resulted in suspending IO to corresponding filesystem. The failed  
path is reinstated by multipathd on the next turn tur checker invoked by 
multipathd (10 sec).
 If I increase path checking freq (by reducing polling_interval to 2 as it 
shown in config below), it doesn't help. In fact, it becomes even worse: I 
faced with situation when all path to LUN were failed by TUR checker at  the 
same time. If not specifying "queue_if_no_path" feature, this leads to IO 
error reported to upper level (FS). It could work quite good for a day or so, 
and then *bum*.
From DS4300 controller logs I see numerous AVT event happening on various LUNs 
from time to time. The interesting thing is that, according to Linux logs, 
the majority of volume transfers were not initiated by multipathd (actually, 
they were not even detected by multipathd). Another strange thing is that 
many of AVT transfers ended up on the same controller on which it was started 
(as it seems to me). I have DS4300 controller log, which is just to big to 
paste here.
 
What I have already tried:
1) Replace 4G HBA's (qla2400) with 2G HBA's (qla2300). Problem remains.
2) IOZONE tests. Works great. No path failures were detected during tests
3) Play with polling_interval. Didn't help.

I have similar configuration working good at some other site. The difference 
between two installations:
1) Single brick configuration of IBM x460
2) Different HBA type (qla2300) installed in host.
3) One HBA instead of two.
4) There is FC-switch between DS4300 controllers and HBA.
5) RHEL4 U4 x86_64 instead of SLES9 SP3 x86
 
 Questions:
1) What else I can try to resolve this problem?
2) Is it true, that AVT mode could not be used in cluster environment (when 
two or more nodes are accessing the same LUN's, and thus can trigger AVT) ?
3) Is there any hope (or need) to add RDAC hw handler to dm-multipath? It 
seems like some part of the work already done by Mike Christie 
(http://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2005-October/msg00020.html).
Do you have any plans to include this code? Is it in usable state?

 
 /var/log/messages
 -------------
 Dec 27 07:30:08 tpc1 multipathd: 8:48: tur checker reports path is down
  Dec 27 07:30:08 tpc1 multipathd: checker failed path 8:48 in map oradata1
 Dec 27 07:30:08 tpc1 kernel: device-mapper: dm-multipath: Failing path 8:48
 Dec 27 07:30:08 tpc1 multipathd: 8:96: tur checker reports path is down 
 Dec 27 07:30:08 tpc1 multipathd: checker failed path 8:96 in map oradata1
  Dec 27 07:30:08 tpc1 kernel: device-mapper: dm-multipath: Failing path 8:96
 Dec 27 07:30:09 tpc1 multipathd: 8:112: tur checker reports path is down
 Dec 27 07:30:09 tpc1 multipathd: checker failed path 8:112 in map oraredo 
 Dec 27 07:30:09 tpc1 kernel: device-mapper: dm-multipath: Failing path 8:112
  Dec 27 07:30:09 tpc1 kernel: Buffer I/O error on device dm-9, logical block 
27696
 Dec 27 07:30:09 tpc1 kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on dm-9
 Dec 27 07:30:09 tpc1 kernel: Aborting journal on device dm-9. 
 Dec 27 07:30:11 tpc1 kernel: ext3_abort called.
 Dec 27 07:30:11 tpc1 kernel: EXT3-fs abort (device dm-9): ext3_journal_start: 
Detected aborted journal
 Dec 27 07:30:11 tpc1 kernel: Remounting filesystem read-only 
 Dec 27 07:30:12 tpc1 multipathd: 8:64: tur checker reports path is down
  Dec 27 07:30:12 tpc1 kernel: device-mapper: dm-multipath: Failing path 8:64
 Dec 27 07:30:12 tpc1 multipathd: checker failed path 8:64 in map oraredo
 Dec 27 07:30:13 tpc1 multipathd: 8:48: tur checker reports path is up 
 Dec 27 07:30:13 tpc1 multipathd: 8:48: reinstated
 Dec 27 07:30:13 tpc1 multipathd: oradata1: switch to path group #2
 Dec 27 07:30:13 tpc1 multipathd: oradata1: switch to path group #2 
 Dec 27 07:30:13 tpc1 multipathd: 8:96: tur checker reports path is up
  Dec 27 07:30:13 tpc1 multipathd: 8:96: reinstated
 Dec 27 07:30:13 tpc1 multipathd: oradata1: switch to path group #1 
 Dec 27 07:30:14 tpc1 multipathd: oradata1: switch to path group #1
  -------------
 
 multipath.conf :
 ---------------
 defaults {
         udev_dir        /dev
          multipath_tool  "/sbin/multipath -v 0 -S"
         polling_interval 2
          default_path_grouping_policy    multibus
         default_getuid_callout  "/sbin/scsi_id -g -u -s /block/%n" 
 
         rr_min_io 100
          failback                immediate
         no_path_retry           fail 
 }
 
 devnode_blacklist {
         devnode "^(ram|raw|loop|fd|md|dm-|sr|scd|st)[0-9]*"
          devnode "^hd[a-z][[0-9]*]"
         devnode "^cciss!c[0-9]d[0-9]*[p[0-9]*]" 
         devnode sda
          devnode fd
         devnode hd
          devnode md
         devnode dm
          devnode sr
         devnode scd
          devnode st
         devnode ram
          devnode raw
         devnode loop
 }
 
 devices {
 
         device {
                  vendor                  "IBM     "
                 product                 "1722-600        " 
                 path_grouping_policy    group_by_prio
                  path_checker            tur
                 path_selector           "round-robin 0" 
                 prio_callout            "/sbin/mpath_prio_tpc /dev/%n"
                  failback                immediate
                 rr_min_io               1000 
                  features                "1 queue_if_no_path"
                  no_path_retry           300
         }
  }
 
 multipaths { 
     multipath {
         wwid    3600a0b80001ff32a000020c2456bf8a0 
         alias   oradata1
      }
     multipath {
          wwid    3600a0b80001ff3de000042ba456bfcbc
         alias   oradata2
      }
     multipath {
          wwid    3600a0b80001ff32a000020c5456bf952
         alias   oraredo 
     }
     multipath { 
         wwid    3600a0b80001ff32a000020c7456bf980
          alias   oraarch1
     }
      multipath {
         wwid    3600a0b80001ff3de000042bc456bfcf0
          alias   oraarch2
     }
  }

multipath -ll output (with no "queue_if_no_path" feature)
---------------------------------------------------------
dm names   N
 dm table oraarch2  N
dm table oraarch2  N
 dm status oraarch2  N
dm info oraarch2  O
 dm table oraredo  N
dm table oraredo  N
 dm status oraredo  N
dm info oraredo  O
 dm table oraarch1  N
dm table oraarch1  N
 dm status oraarch1  N
dm info oraarch1  O
 dm table oradata2  N
dm table oradata2  N
 dm status oradata2  N
dm info oradata2  O
 dm table oraarch1p1  N
dm table oradata1  N
 dm table oradata1  N
dm status oradata1  N
 dm info oradata1  O
dm table oraarch2p1  N
 dm table oradata1p1  N
dm table oradata2p1  N
 dm table oraredo1  N
oraarch2 (3600a0b80001ff3de000042bc456bfcf0) 
[size=136 GB][features="0"][hwhandler="0"]
 \_ round-robin 0 [prio=6][active]
 \_ 1:0:0:4 sdc 8:32  [active][ready]
 \_ round-robin 0 [prio=1][enabled]
 \_ 4:0:0:4 sdk 8:160 [active][ready] 

oraredo (3600a0b80001ff32a000020c5456bf952)
 [size=136 GB][features="0"][hwhandler="0"]
\_ round-robin 0 [prio=6][active] 
 \_ 3:0:0:1 sdh 8:112 [active][ready]
 \_ round-robin 0 [prio=1][enabled]
 \_ 2:0:0:1 sde 8:64  [active][ready]
 
oraarch1 (3600a0b80001ff32a000020c7456bf980)
 [size=136 GB][features="0"][hwhandler="0"]
\_ round-robin 0 [prio=6][active]
  \_ 2:0:0:2 sdf 8:80  [active][ready]
\_ round-robin 0 [prio=1][enabled] 
 \_ 3:0:0:2 sdi 8:128 [active][ready]

 oradata2 (3600a0b80001ff3de000042ba456bfcbc)
[size=817 GB][features="0"][hwhandler="0"] 
\_ round-robin 0 [prio=6][active]
  \_ 4:0:0:3 sdj 8:144 [active][ready]
\_ round-robin 0 [prio=1][enabled]
  \_ 1:0:0:3 sdb 8:16  [active][ready]

 oradata1 (3600a0b80001ff32a000020c2456bf8a0)
[size=681 GB][features="0"][hwhandler="0"]
 \_ round-robin 0 [prio=6][enabled]
 \_ 3:0:0:0 sdg 8:96  [active][ready] 
\_ round-robin 0 [prio=1][enabled]
  \_ 2:0:0:0 sdd 8:48  [active][ready]


Best Regards,
Yury.

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