Re: [PATCH resend] ALUA support for PURE FlashArray

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Hi Xose, Brian,

I don't have the original patch in my mailbox, ... only Xose's notifications.
Brian, please resend to: me, cc: list

Best,
Christophe.

On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 3:10 PM Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 12/28/19 1:24 AM, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:

Hi Christophe,

This one is missing.

Thank you.

> From: Brian Bunker <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hello all,
>
> It has been some time since we updated our PURE FlashArray
> configuration. The Linux vendors that we had been seeing in the field
> were using very old versions of multipath-tools, so we haven’t needed to
> change anything for some time. With the release of RHEL8, some of our
> earlier values have been lost by upstream changes.
>
> In addition we have our Active Cluster feature which leverages ALUA
> since our last patch. The ALUA confguration will work for all
> FlashArrays with or without Active Cluster.
>
> We are changing 3 things.
>
> 1. ALUA support
> 2. Fast fail timeout from the default of 5 seconds to 10 seconds (We
>     need this for our FC NPIV port migration).
> 3. Maximum sector size of 4MB. Some Linux vendors don’t honor the block
>     limits VPD page of INQUIRY).
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
> Cc: Christophe Varoqui <christophe.varoqui@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: DM-DEVEL ML <dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Brian Bunker <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   libmultipath/hwtable.c | 7 ++++++-
>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/libmultipath/hwtable.c b/libmultipath/hwtable.c
> index 16627ec..9bc59f1 100644
> --- a/libmultipath/hwtable.c
> +++ b/libmultipath/hwtable.c
> @@ -1039,7 +1039,12 @@ static struct hwentry default_hw[] = {
>               /* FlashArray */
>               .vendor        = "PURE",
>               .product       = "FlashArray",
> -             .pgpolicy      = MULTIBUS,
> +             .pgpolicy      = GROUP_BY_PRIO,
> +             .pgfailback    = -FAILBACK_IMMEDIATE,
> +             .hwhandler     = "1 alua",
> +             .prio_name     = PRIO_ALUA,
> +             .fast_io_fail  = 10,
> +             .max_sectors_kb = 4096,
>       },
>       /*
>        * Huawei
>

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