On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 19:33 -0400, David Dillow wrote: > On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 19:13 -0400, Vu Pham wrote: > > Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 03:25:15PM -0400, David Dillow wrote: > > >> I use multipath with ALUA, and I don't mind if the link flaps a bit. 60 > > >> seconds is near my SCSI timeout of 77 seconds, so it doesn't buy me > > >> much. I'd rather multipath be delivering traffic to the backup path than > > >> sitting on its thumbs for 60 seconds doing nothing. > > > > Certainly an enforced lower limit in the kernel is silly, and a > > > per-device setting does make some sense. > > > Here is the updated patch which implement the device_loss_timeout for > > each target instead of module parameter. It also reflects changes from > > previous feedbacks. Please review > > Please put your patches inline for ease of reply... > > You still seem to have a 30 second minimum timeout, and no way to > disable it altogether.
And if I could read a patch, I'd notice that that was not a minimum, but a default. Still, I have to have a 1 second timeout with no way to disable entirely. Better, but... -- Dave Dillow National Center for Computational Science Oak Ridge National Laboratory (865) 241-6602 office -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
