Hi Martin and Muneendra, Any updated status about this version of patches? Regards Guan On 2017/9/21 21:43, Guan Junxiong wrote: > Hi ALL, > > This patchset add a new method of path state checking based on accounting > IO error. This is useful in many scenarios such as intermittent IO error > an a path due to network congestion, or a shaky link. > > PATCH 1/2 implements the algorithm that sends a couple of continuous IOs > to a path which suffers two failed events in less than a given time. Those > IOs are sent at a fix rate of 10 Hz. > PATCH 2/2 discard the original algorithm because of this: > the detect sample interval of that path checkers is so big/coarse that > it doesn't see what happens in the middle of the sample interval. We have > the PATCH 1/2 as a better method. > > > Changes from V5: > * rebase on the latest release 0.7.3 > > > Changes from V4: > * path_io_err_XXX -> marginal_path_err_XXX. (Mumeendra) > * add one more parameters named marginal_path_double_failed_time instead > of the fixed 60 seconds for the pre-checking of a shaky path. (Martin) > * fix for "reschedule checking after %d seconds" log > * path_io_err_recovery_time -> marginal_path_err_recheck_gap_time. > * put the marginal path into PATH_SHAKY instead of PATH_DELAYED > * Modify the commit comments to sync with the changes above. > > > Changes from V3: > * add a patch for discard the san_path_XXX_feature > * fail the path in the kernel before enqueueing the path for checking > rather than after knowing the checking result to make it more > reliable. (Martin) > * use posix_memalign instead of manual alignment for direct IO buffer. (Martin) > * use PATH_MAX to avoid certain compiler warning when opening file > rather than FILE_NAME_SIZE. (Martin) > * discard unnecessary sanity check when getting block size (Martin) > * do not return 0 in send_each_aync_io if io_starttime of a path is > not set(Martin) > * Wait 10ms instead of 60 second if every path is down. (Martin) > * rename handle_async_io_timeout to poll_async_io_timeout and use polling > method because io_getevents does not return 0 if there are timeout IO > and normal IO. > * rename hit_io_err_recover_time ro hit_io_err_recheck_time > * modify the multipath.conf.5 and commit comments to keep sync with the > above changes > > > Changes from V2: > * fix uncondistional rescedule forverver > * use script/checkpatch.pl in Linux to cleanup informal coding style > * fix "continous" and "internel" typos > > > Changes from V1: > * send continous IO instead of a single IO in a sample interval (Martin) > * when recover time expires, we reschedule the checking process (Hannes) > * Use the error rate threshold as a permillage instead of IO number(Martin) > * Use a common io_context for libaio for all paths (Martin) > * Other small fixes (Martin) > > > Junxiong Guan (2): > multipath-tools: intermittent IO error accounting to improve > reliability > multipath-tools: discard san_path_err_XXX feature > > libmultipath/Makefile | 5 +- > libmultipath/config.c | 3 - > libmultipath/config.h | 21 +- > libmultipath/configure.c | 7 +- > libmultipath/dict.c | 88 +++--- > libmultipath/io_err_stat.c | 744 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > libmultipath/io_err_stat.h | 15 + > libmultipath/propsel.c | 70 +++-- > libmultipath/propsel.h | 7 +- > libmultipath/structs.h | 15 +- > libmultipath/uevent.c | 32 ++ > libmultipath/uevent.h | 2 + > multipath/multipath.conf.5 | 89 ++++-- > multipathd/main.c | 140 ++++----- > 14 files changed, 1043 insertions(+), 195 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 libmultipath/io_err_stat.c > create mode 100644 libmultipath/io_err_stat.h > -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
