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* dm-multipath: failback problem.
@ 2006-02-16 16:48 Benjamin Marzinski
  2006-02-17 23:59 ` Christophe Varoqui
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Benjamin Marzinski @ 2006-02-16 16:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: dm-devel

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If the failback period is set to more that four times the polling interval,
paths will never fail back. This is because the failback_tick keeps getting
reet. The attached patch fixes this.

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diff -urpN mp-devel-clean/multipathd/main.c mp-devel-patched/multipathd/main.c
--- mp-devel-clean/multipathd/main.c	2006-02-15 15:26:13.000000000 -0600
+++ mp-devel-patched/multipathd/main.c	2006-02-15 17:48:56.000000000 -0600
@@ -1265,7 +1265,8 @@ checkerloop (void *ap)
 			pathinfo(pp, conf->hwtable, DI_PRIO);
 
 			if (need_switch_pathgroup(pp->mpp, 0)) {
-				if (pp->mpp->pgfailback > 0)
+				if (pp->mpp->pgfailback > 0 &&
+				    pp->mpp->failback_tick <= 0)
 					pp->mpp->failback_tick =
 						pp->mpp->pgfailback + 1;
 				else if (pp->mpp->pgfailback ==

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* Re: dm-multipath: failback problem.
  2006-02-16 16:48 dm-multipath: failback problem Benjamin Marzinski
@ 2006-02-17 23:59 ` Christophe Varoqui
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Christophe Varoqui @ 2006-02-17 23:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: device-mapper development

On jeu, 2006-02-16 at 10:48 -0600, Benjamin Marzinski wrote:
> If the failback period is set to more that four times the polling interval,
> paths will never fail back. This is because the failback_tick keeps getting
> reet. The attached patch fixes this.
> --
Correct. Applied with thanks.

Regards,
cvaroqui

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