On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 04:14:53PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > This patch adds initial multipath support to the nvme driver. For each > namespace we create a new block device node, which can be used to access > that namespace through any of the controllers that refer to it. > > Currently we will always send I/O to the first available path, this will > be changed once the NVMe Asynchronous Namespace Access (ANA) TP is > ratified and implemented, at which point we will look at the ANA state > for each namespace. Another possibility that was prototyped is to > use the path that is closes to the submitting NUMA code, which will be > mostly interesting for PCI, but might also be useful for RDMA or FC > transports in the future. There is not plan to implement round robin no ^ > or I/O service time path selectors, as those are not scalable with > the performance rates provided by NVMe. > > The multipath device will go away once all paths to it disappear, > any delay to keep it alive needs to be implemented at the controller > level. Sorry for the typo only mail, I'll be going around a real review soon but I wanted to test the patchset in my nvme-rdma setup and just hit a panic in ib_core with your branched merged into -rc1. Byte, Johannes -- Johannes Thumshirn Storage jthumshirn@xxxxxxx +49 911 74053 689 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) Key fingerprint = EC38 9CAB C2C4 F25D 8600 D0D0 0393 969D 2D76 0850