The way that the checkers async mode worked in multipathd didn't make much sense. When multipathd starts up, all checker classes are in the sync mode, and any pathinfo() calls on devices would run the checker in sync mode. However, the First time a checker class was used in checkerloop, it would set that checker class to async (assuming force_sync wasn't set). After that, no matter when a checker from that class was called, it would always run in async mode. Multipathd doesn't need to run checkers in sync mode at all, so don't. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@xxxxxxxxxx> --- libmpathpersist/mpath_persist.c | 2 +- libmultipath/discovery.c | 10 ++++------ multipath/main.c | 1 + 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/libmpathpersist/mpath_persist.c b/libmpathpersist/mpath_persist.c index 603cfc3b..b2238f00 100644 --- a/libmpathpersist/mpath_persist.c +++ b/libmpathpersist/mpath_persist.c @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ mpath_lib_init (void) condlog(0, "Failed to initialize multipath config."); return NULL; } - + conf->force_sync = 1; set_max_fds(conf->max_fds); return conf; diff --git a/libmultipath/discovery.c b/libmultipath/discovery.c index d2773c3a..1ab093f4 100644 --- a/libmultipath/discovery.c +++ b/libmultipath/discovery.c @@ -1643,12 +1643,10 @@ get_state (struct path * pp, struct config *conf, int daemon, int oldstate) if (pp->mpp && !c->mpcontext) checker_mp_init(c, &pp->mpp->mpcontext); checker_clear_message(c); - if (daemon) { - if (conf->force_sync == 0) - checker_set_async(c); - else - checker_set_sync(c); - } + if (conf->force_sync == 0) + checker_set_async(c); + else + checker_set_sync(c); if (!conf->checker_timeout && sysfs_get_timeout(pp, &(c->timeout)) <= 0) c->timeout = DEF_TIMEOUT; diff --git a/multipath/main.c b/multipath/main.c index 4f4d8e89..aebabd9b 100644 --- a/multipath/main.c +++ b/multipath/main.c @@ -905,6 +905,7 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[]) exit(RTVL_FAIL); multipath_conf = conf; conf->retrigger_tries = 0; + conf->force_sync = 1; while ((arg = getopt(argc, argv, ":adcChl::FfM:v:p:b:BrR:itTquUwW")) != EOF ) { switch(arg) { case 1: printf("optarg : %s\n",optarg); -- 2.17.2 -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel