Hi Hannes, Can you tell me when these patches get in the kernel? Is that going to be 2.6.24.x or can we expect them before that? Sander On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 10:13 +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > Hi all, > > this patchset adds some more abstraction to the multipath > hardware handlers. > - A generic workqueue framework is added, which allows the > hardware handler to submit failover commands independent > from multipath I/O. > - The exsting RDAC hardware handler is converted to use that > framework > - A new SPC-3 ALUA hardware handler is added, using that > framework > - A controller abstraction is added to the framework, which > allows for command throttling based on the used controller. > - The RDAC hardware handler is modified to use the new > controller framework. > > This patchset superseded my previous implementation of the > SPC-3 ALUA handler. > Next plans are to update the table definitions and multipath-tools > to allow for a passing of the controller ID from userland; ALUA > doesn't specify for any controller information, so we have to > do this by hand based on prior knowledge of the storage array. > > As per normal, comments etc welcome. > > Cheers, > > Hannes - 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
