On Wed, 2021-03-31 at 16:18 +0530, Muneendra Kumar M wrote: > > > Talking about FPIN, is it planned to notify user space about such > > fabric > events, and if yes, how? > > [Muneendra]Yes. FC drivers, when receiving FC FPIN ELS's are calling > a > scsi transport routine with the FPIN payload. The transport > is pushing this as an "event" via netlink. An app bound to the local > address used by the scsi transport can receive the event and parse > it. > > Benjamin has added a marginal_path group(multipath marginal > pathgroups) in > the dm-multipath. > https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/dm-devel/cover/1564763622-31752-1-git > -send-email-bmarzins@xxxxxxxxxx/ > > One of the intention of the Benjamin's patch (support for maginal > path) is > to support for the FPIN events we receive from fabric. > On receiving the fpin-li our intention was to place all the paths > that > are affected into the marginal path group. > I'm aware of Ben's work, but I hadn't realized it had anything to do with FPIN. As of today, multipathd doesn't listen on the NETLINK_SCSITRANSPORT socket. Does any user space tool do this? Google didn't show me anything. Regards, Martin -- Dr. Martin Wilck <mwilck@xxxxxxxx>, Tel. +49 (0)911 74053 2107 SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg GF: Felix Imendörffer -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
