Hi all,
I'd like to attend LSF/MM and would like to present my ideas for a
multipath redesign.
The overall idea is to break up the centralized multipath handling
in device-mapper (and multipath-tools) and delegate to the
appropriate sub-systems.
Individually the plan is:
a) use the 'wwid' sysfs attribute to detect multipath devices;
this removes the need of the current 'path_id' functionality
in multipath-tools
b) leverage topology information from scsi_dh_alua (which we will
have once my ALUA handler update is in) to detect the multipath
topology. This removes the need of a 'prio' infrastructure
in multipath-tools
c) implement block or scsi events whenever a remote port becomes
unavailable. This removes the need of the 'path_checker'
functionality in multipath-tools.
d) leverage these events to handle path-up/path-down events
in-kernel
e) move the I/O redirection logic out of device-mapper proper
and use blk-mq to redirect I/O. This is still a bit of
hand-waving, and definitely would need discussion to figure
out if and how it can be achieved.
This is basically the same topic Mike Snitzer proposed, but
coming from a different angle.
But in the end we should be able to do strip down the current
(rather complex) multipath-tools to just handle topology changes;
everything else will be done internally.
Cheers,
Hannes
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