Bug#827322: multipath-tools: Not all paths discovered when large number of paths are present

2016-06-25 Thread Andrew Patterson
On 06/25/2016 02:16 AM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > On Thu, 2016-06-23 at 16:50 -0600, Andrew Patterson wrote: >> +# Save boot > setting for aio-max-nr. >> +BOOT_AIO_MAX_NR=$(cat /proc/sys/fs/aio-max-nr) >> + >> if [ -f /etc/multipath-tools-boot.conf ]; then >> . /etc/multipath-tools-boot.con

Bug#827322: multipath-tools: Not all paths discovered when large number of paths are present

2016-06-25 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Thu, 2016-06-23 at 16:50 -0600, Andrew Patterson wrote: > +# Save boot setting for aio-max-nr. > +BOOT_AIO_MAX_NR=$(cat /proc/sys/fs/aio-max-nr) > + >  if [ -f /etc/multipath-tools-boot.conf ]; then >  . /etc/multipath-tools-boot.conf >  else >  MULTIPATH_TOOLS_MODULES="dm-mod dm-multipa

Bug#827322: multipath-tools: Not all paths discovered when large number of paths are present

2016-06-23 Thread Andrew Patterson
On Mon, 20 Jun 2016 16:40:29 -0600 Andrew Patterson wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 15:19:22 +0530 Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > > Control: tag -1 +pending > > > > On Wed, 2016-06-15 at 13:03 -0600, Andrew Patterson wrote: > > > For most users this is not an issue. How many systems are going to use >

Bug#827322: multipath-tools: Not all paths discovered when large number of paths are present

2016-06-20 Thread Andrew Patterson
On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 15:19:22 +0530 Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Control: tag -1 +pending > > On Wed, 2016-06-15 at 13:03 -0600, Andrew Patterson wrote: > > For most users this is not an issue. How many systems are going to use > > that many LUNs? > > > > I agree. > > > One counter-example is usi

Bug#827322: multipath-tools: Not all paths discovered when large number of paths are present

2016-06-16 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Control: tag -1 +pending On Wed, 2016-06-15 at 13:03 -0600, Andrew Patterson wrote: > For most users this is not an issue. How many systems are going to use > that many LUNs? > I agree. > One counter-example is using one or more FC LUNs per VM guest on a > host. In such a case, one can just mod

Bug#827322: multipath-tools: Not all paths discovered when large number of paths are present

2016-06-15 Thread Andrew Patterson
On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 00:15:37 +0530 Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > On Wed, 2016-06-15 at 11:12 -0600, Andrew Patterson wrote: > > > > Thanks for reminding me about max_fds. At boot: > > > > # cat /proc/sys/fs/nr_open > > 1048576 > > > > and > > > > # multipath -t | grep max_fds > > Â Â Â Â Â Â Â m

Bug#827322: multipath-tools: Not all paths discovered when large number of paths are present

2016-06-15 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Wed, 2016-06-15 at 11:12 -0600, Andrew Patterson wrote: > > Thanks for reminding me about max_fds. At boot: > > # cat /proc/sys/fs/nr_open > 1048576 > > and > > # multipath -t | grep max_fds >     max_fds "max" > > So this should already be set to 1048576. I tried the test again after >

Bug#827322: multipath-tools: Not all paths discovered when large number of paths are present

2016-06-15 Thread Andrew Patterson
On 06/15/2016 08:43 AM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Control: tag -1 moreinfo > > On Tue, 2016-06-14 at 17:30 -0600, Andrew Patterson wrote: >> There is no output in dmesg. >> >> Changing /proc/sys/fs/aio-max-nr from the default 65536 to 1048576 >> seems to help. With this change, I can go up to 256

Bug#827322: multipath-tools: Not all paths discovered when large number of paths are present

2016-06-15 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Tue, 2016-06-14 at 17:30 -0600, Andrew Patterson wrote: > There is no output in dmesg. > > Changing /proc/sys/fs/aio-max-nr from the default 65536 to 1048576 > seems to help. With this change, I can go up to 256 LUNs (1024 paths) > with no problems. > > I have seen si

Bug#827322: multipath-tools: Not all paths discovered when large number of paths are present

2016-06-14 Thread Andrew Patterson
Package: multipath-tools Version: 0.6.1-3 Multipath discovery fails to find some paths when a large number of paths are used. I used the following to test this: 1. Present 64 FC LUNs to the OS with 4 paths each (256 paths total). 2. Run multipath -F to make sure we don't have any intermediate re