This patch adds two minor fixes while processing device mapper path activation. 1. Skip failed paths while calling activate_path. If the path is already failed then activate_path will fail for sure. We don't have to call in that case. In some case this might cause prolonged retries unnecessarily. 2. changed the mis-leading message if the activate path fails with SCSI_DH_NOSYS. Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@xxxxxxx> --- --- linux-2.6.33-rc2/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c.orig 2010-01-15 15:04:37.000000000 -0400 +++ linux-2.6.33-rc2/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c 2010-01-15 15:11:48.000000000 -0400 @@ -461,6 +461,9 @@ static void process_queued_ios(struct wo m->pg_init_count++; m->pg_init_required = 0; list_for_each_entry(tmp, &pgpath->pg->pgpaths, list) { + /* Skip failed paths */ + if (!tmp->is_active) + continue; if (queue_work(kmpath_handlerd, &tmp->activate_path)) m->pg_init_in_progress++; } @@ -1143,8 +1146,8 @@ static void pg_init_done(void *data, int errors = 0; break; } - DMERR("Cannot failover device because scsi_dh_%s was not " - "loaded.", m->hw_handler_name); + DMERR("Could not failover the device, Handler scsi_dh_%s " + "Error %d.", m->hw_handler_name, errors); /* * Fail path for now, so we do not ping pong */ -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel