On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 02:02:56PM -0500, SoulBlazer wrote:
> Question,
>
> I have 2 Qlogic Fiberchannel HBA's (2100F's) connected directly to both FCAL
> ports on my Sun A5200 22 Disk disk array. If I enable multipath, do I get
> twice the throughput between my linux box and the array ? Or is multipath
> purely for failover.
>
> Additionally do I get twice the bandwidth anyhow since both HBA's see the
> same disk ? How can I tell if either one or the other or both hba's are
> being utilized...
multipath does not do any read-balancing (see code below),
while i don't think it would be difficult to implement (cut&paste from raid1.c)
i did not have any time to try
only way i found to do read-balancing at the moment is if you have multiple luns on your
array you can create md configs with alternating channel order.
regards,
Luca
------- from 2.4.18-rc1/drivers/md/multipath.c
static int multipath_read_balance (multipath_conf_t *conf)
{
int disk;
for (disk = 0; disk < conf->raid_disks; disk++)
if (conf->multipaths[disk].operational)
return disk;
BUG();
return 0;
}
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Luca Berra -- bluca@comedia.it
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