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[80.39.29.32]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5b1f17b1804b1-4922031b21dsm61696545e9.6.2026.06.13.03.28.00 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:28:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <02efe6db-3a13-4177-a318-eccf95a01c09@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:27:59 +0200 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: dm-devel@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] multipath-tools: delete obsolete information from multipath.conf.5 To: Benjamin Marzinski Cc: Martin Wilck , Christophe Varoqui , DM_DEVEL-ML References: <20260607103831.336833-1-xose.vazquez@gmail.com> <20260607103831.336833-2-xose.vazquez@gmail.com> Content-Language: en-US, en-GB, es-ES From: Xose Vazquez Perez In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 6/11/26 12:46 AM, Benjamin Marzinski wrote: > On Sun, Jun 07, 2026 at 12:38:21PM +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: >> @@ -198,9 +198,8 @@ kernel multipath target: >> .TP 12 >> .I "round-robin 0" >> Choose the path for the next bunch of I/O by looping through every path in the >> -path group, sending \fBthe same number of I/O requests\fR to each path. Some >> -aspects of behavior can be controlled with the attributes: \fIrr_min_io\fR, >> -\fIrr_min_io_rq\fR and \fIrr_weight\fR. >> +path group, sending \fBthe same number of I/O requests\fR to each path. > For the path selectors, we know the number of I/O requests that will > be sent, and it's 1. So instead of saying "the next bunch of I/O", we > should probably just say "the next I/O request". And we can probably > just drop the "sending the same number of I/O requests to each path" > part of the round-robin definition. >> @@ -1008,10 +974,6 @@ The default is: \fB\fR >> .TP >> .B config_dir >> (Deprecated) This option is not supported anymore, and will be ignored. >> -.RS >> -.TP >> -The compiled-in value is: \fB@CONFIGDIR@\fR >> -.RE > We don't actually specify the location of these files and directories > elsewhere in this man page (except for the bindings file), and we do > refer to them by these config option names. We should probably > replace the references to these option names with the actual file > locations, and probably also list the files in a FILES section. Sounds good. I will address both points and submit the updates in separate patches.