Re: [dm-devel] [Lsf] Notes from the four separate IO track sessions at LSF/MM

2016-05-03 Thread Laurence Oberman
Monday, May 2, 2016 6:28:16 PM Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [Lsf] Notes from the four separate IO track sessions at LSF/MM On 05/02/2016 12:28 PM, Laurence Oberman wrote: > Even in the case of the ib_srp, don't we also have to still run the > eh_timeout for each of the devices that has infligh

Re: [dm-devel] [Lsf] Notes from the four separate IO track sessions at LSF/MM

2016-05-02 Thread Bart Van Assche
On 05/02/2016 12:28 PM, Laurence Oberman wrote: Even in the case of the ib_srp, don't we also have to still run the eh_timeout for each of the devices that has inflight requiring error handling serially. This means we will still have to wait to get a path failover until all are through the timeou

Re: [dm-devel] [Lsf] Notes from the four separate IO track sessions at LSF/MM

2016-05-02 Thread Laurence Oberman
ottomley" , "device-mapper development" , l...@lists.linux-foundation.org Sent: Monday, May 2, 2016 2:49:54 PM Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [Lsf] Notes from the four separate IO track sessions at LSF/MM On 04/29/2016 05:47 PM, Laurence Oberman wrote: > From: "Bart Van Assche" &g

Re: [dm-devel] [Lsf] Notes from the four separate IO track sessions at LSF/MM

2016-05-02 Thread Bart Van Assche
undation.org Sent: Friday, April 29, 2016 8:36:22 PM Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [Lsf] Notes from the four separate IO track sessions at LSF/MM On 04/29/2016 02:47 PM, Laurence Oberman wrote: Recovery with 21 LUNS is 300s that have in-flights to abort. [ ... ] eh_deadline is set to 10 on the 2 qlogic

Re: [dm-devel] [Lsf] Notes from the four separate IO track sessions at LSF/MM

2016-04-29 Thread Laurence Oberman
linux-foundation.org Sent: Friday, April 29, 2016 8:36:22 PM Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [Lsf] Notes from the four separate IO track sessions at LSF/MM On 04/29/2016 02:47 PM, Laurence Oberman wrote: > Recovery with 21 LUNS is 300s that have in-flights to abort. > [ ... ] > eh_deadline i

Re: [dm-devel] [Lsf] Notes from the four separate IO track sessions at LSF/MM

2016-04-29 Thread Bart Van Assche
On 04/29/2016 02:47 PM, Laurence Oberman wrote: Recovery with 21 LUNS is 300s that have in-flights to abort. [ ... ] eh_deadline is set to 10 on the 2 qlogic ports, eh_timeout is set > to 10 for all devices. In multipath fast_io_fail_tmo=5 I jam one of the target array ports and discard the co

Re: [dm-devel] [Lsf] Notes from the four separate IO track sessions at LSF/MM

2016-04-29 Thread Laurence Oberman
" To: "Bart Van Assche" Cc: linux-bl...@vger.kernel.org, "linux-scsi" , "Mike Snitzer" , "James Bottomley" , "device-mapper development" , l...@lists.linux-foundation.org, "Benjamin Marzinski" Sent: Friday, April 29, 2016 5:47:07 P

Re: [dm-devel] [Lsf] Notes from the four separate IO track sessions at LSF/MM

2016-04-29 Thread Laurence Oberman
n Principal Software Maintenance Engineer Red Hat Global Support Services - Original Message - From: "Laurence Oberman" To: "Bart Van Assche" Cc: linux-bl...@vger.kernel.org, "linux-scsi" , "Mike Snitzer" , "James Bottomley" , "device-ma

Re: [Lsf] Notes from the four separate IO track sessions at LSF/MM

2016-04-28 Thread James Bottomley
On Thu, 2016-04-28 at 16:19 +, Knight, Frederick wrote: > There are multiple possible situations being intermixed in this > discussion. First, I assume you're talking only about random access > devices (if you try transport level error recover on a sequential > access device - tape or SMR disk

Re: [dm-devel] [Lsf] Notes from the four separate IO track sessions at LSF/MM

2016-04-28 Thread Laurence Oberman
: "Bart Van Assche" To: "Laurence Oberman" Cc: linux-bl...@vger.kernel.org, "linux-scsi" , "Mike Snitzer" , "James Bottomley" , "device-mapper development" , l...@lists.linux-foundation.org Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 12:41:26 PM Subject

Re: [dm-devel] [Lsf] Notes from the four separate IO track sessions at LSF/MM

2016-04-28 Thread Bart Van Assche
On 04/28/2016 09:23 AM, Laurence Oberman wrote: We still suffer from periodic complaints in our large customer base > regarding the long recovery times for dm-multipath. Most of the time this is when we have something like a switch > back-plane issue or an issue where RSCN'S are blocked coming

Re: [Lsf] Notes from the four separate IO track sessions at LSF/MM

2016-04-28 Thread Bart Van Assche
; To: James Bottomley; Mike Snitzer > Cc: linux-bl...@vger.kernel.org; l...@lists.linux-foundation.org; > device-mapper development; linux-scsi > Subject: Re: [Lsf] Notes from the four separate IO track sessions at LSF/MM > > On 04/28/2016 08:40 AM, James Bottomley wrote: >> Well, the

Re: [Lsf] Notes from the four separate IO track sessions at LSF/MM

2016-04-28 Thread Laurence Oberman
device-mapper development" , "linux-scsi" Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 11:53:50 AM Subject: Re: [Lsf] Notes from the four separate IO track sessions at LSF/MM On 04/28/2016 08:40 AM, James Bottomley wrote: > Well, the entire room, that's vendors, users and implementors

RE: [Lsf] Notes from the four separate IO track sessions at LSF/MM

2016-04-28 Thread Knight, Frederick
tomley; Mike Snitzer Cc: linux-bl...@vger.kernel.org; l...@lists.linux-foundation.org; device-mapper development; linux-scsi Subject: Re: [Lsf] Notes from the four separate IO track sessions at LSF/MM On 04/28/2016 08:40 AM, James Bottomley wrote: > Well, the entire room, that's vendors, u

Re: [Lsf] Notes from the four separate IO track sessions at LSF/MM

2016-04-28 Thread Bart Van Assche
On 04/28/2016 08:40 AM, James Bottomley wrote: Well, the entire room, that's vendors, users and implementors complained that path failover takes far too long. I think in their minds this is enough substance to go on. The only complaints I heard about path failover taking too long came from pe