Hello Bart, This is when we have a subset of the paths fails. As you know the remaining path wont be used until the eh_handler is either done or is short circuited. What I will do is set this up via my jammer and capture a test using latest upstream. Of course my customer pain points are all in the RHEL kernels so I need to capture a recovery trace on the latest upstream kernel. When the SCSI commands for a path are black-holed and remain that way, even with eh_deadline and the short circuited adapter resets we simply try again and get back in the wait loop until we finally declare the device offline. This can take a while and differs depending on Qlogic, Emulex or fnic etc. First thing tomorrow will set this up and show you what I mean. Thanks!! Laurence Oberman Principal Software Maintenance Engineer Red Hat Global Support Services ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bart Van Assche" <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Laurence Oberman" <loberman@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-block@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "linux-scsi" <linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Mike Snitzer" <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx>, "James Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "device-mapper development" <dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx>, lsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 12:41:26 PM Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [Lsf] Notes from the four separate IO track sessions at LSF/MM On 04/28/2016 09:23 AM, Laurence Oberman wrote: > We still suffer from periodic complaints in our large customer base > regarding the long recovery times for dm-multipath. > Most of the time this is when we have something like a switch > back-plane issue or an issue where RSCN'S are blocked coming back up > the fabric. Corner cases still bite us often. > > Most of the complaints originate from customers for example seeing > Oracle cluster evictions where during the waiting on the mid-layer > all mpath I/O is blocked until recovery. > > We have to tune eh_deadline, eh_timeout and fast_io_fail_tmo but > even tuning those we have to wait on serial recovery even if we > set the timeouts low. > > Lately we have been living with > eh_deadline=10 > eh_timeout=5 > fast_fail_io_tmo=10 > leaving default sd timeout at 30s > > So this continues to be an issue and I have specific examples using > the jammer I can provide showing the serial recovery times here. Hello Laurence, The long recovery times you refer to, is that for a scenario where all paths failed or for a scenario where some paths failed and other paths are still working? In the latter case, how long does it take before dm-multipath fails over to another path? Thanks, Bart. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-block" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
