Guido Guenther wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 04:49:07PM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: >> In priciple a good idea. However, I do have some to-do items on my list >> yet: >> >> - netlink messages: The FC transport class has a netlink interface >> nowadays. It may be an idea to utilize this information in to update >> the path status. >> - Enhance path checker. Currently the path checker is run at periodic >> intervals regardless of the path state. This leads to quite some >> load on systems with many paths, even when all paths are healthy. >> We should rather call the path checker only if a path has failed, >> as we're being notified by a failed path soon enough via I/O errors. >> And we might even be using the netlink events from FC here, too. >> > My point exactly: let's tag a new stable version and add these nice > things to the (then) next release. I think the stability of the master > branch improved quiet a bit during the last couple of commits, It'd be > nice to have this out of the door for distributions to build upon before > doing more intrusive changes again. (Ah, so there is an RHEL update coming :-) But yes, you are right. Putting out a new version before adding those is probably a good thing. Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage hare@xxxxxxx +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
