linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] Provide more fine grained control over multipathing

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Date:   Thu, 31 May 2018 10:42:48 +0800
From:   Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>
To:     Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de>
Cc:     Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>,
        Laurence Oberman <loberman@...hat.com>,
        Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        James Smart <james.smart@...adcom.com>,
        Ewan Milne <emilne@...hat.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailinglist <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Keith Busch <keith.busch@...el.com>,
        Linux NVMe Mailinglist <linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Martin George <marting@...app.com>,
        John Meneghini <John.Meneghini@...app.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Provide more fine grained control over multipathing

On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 09:22:40AM +0200, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 11:02:36PM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> > No, what both Red Hat and SUSE are saying is: cool let's have a go at
> > "Plan A" but, in parallel, what harm is there in allowing "Plan B" (dm
> > multipath) to be conditionally enabled to coexist with native NVMe
> > multipath?
> 
> For a "Plan B" we can still use the global knob that's already in
> place (even if this reminds me so much about scsi-mq which at least we
> haven't turned on in fear of performance regressions).

BTW, for scsi-mq, we have made a little progress by commit 2f31115e940c
(scsi: core: introduce force_blk_mq), and virtio-scsi is working at
always scsi-mq mode now. Then driver can decide if .force_blk_mq needs
to be set.

Hope progress can be made in this nvme mpath issue too.

Thanks,
Ming