DM_DEVICE_CREATE loads a new table, so there cannot be any I/O pending. Hence we should be setting the 'no flush' and 'skip lockfs' flag to avoid delays during creation. Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> --- libmultipath/devmapper.c | 15 ++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/libmultipath/devmapper.c b/libmultipath/devmapper.c index 15c91c9..c2ae83b 100644 --- a/libmultipath/devmapper.c +++ b/libmultipath/devmapper.c @@ -321,11 +321,16 @@ dm_addmap (int task, const char *target, struct multipath *mpp, dm_task_no_open_count(dmt); - if (cookie && - !dm_task_set_cookie(dmt, cookie, - DM_UDEV_DISABLE_LIBRARY_FALLBACK)) { - dm_udev_complete(*cookie); - goto freeout; + if (cookie) { + if (!dm_task_set_cookie(dmt, cookie, + DM_UDEV_DISABLE_LIBRARY_FALLBACK)) { + dm_udev_complete(*cookie); + goto freeout; + } + dm_task_skip_lockfs(dmt); +#ifdef LIBDM_API_FLUSH + dm_task_no_flush(dmt); +#endif } r = dm_task_run (dmt); -- 2.6.6 -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel