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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 19/23] scsi_dh_alua: Use workqueue for RTPG
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 08:39:27 +0200
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To: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, James Bottomley <james.bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>, "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>, Bart van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Todd Gill <tgill@redhat.com>

On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 02:57:57PM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> That is what I'm eventually planning to do.
> My final goal is to move the multipath path monitoring stuff
> into the kernel (via the block device polling mechanism), and sending
> block events for path failure and re-establishment.

It might be a good idea to prioritize that.  Todd has been asking
for multipath monitoring APIs and suggested adding D-BUS APIs to
multipathd.  I'd much prefer them directly talking to the kernel
instead of cementing multipathd, which is a bit of a wart.