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From: "Benjamin Marzinski" <bmarzins@redhat.com>
To: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: "dm-devel@redhat.com" <dm-devel@redhat.com>,
	"corbet@lwn.net" <corbet@lwn.net>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>,
	"Nalla, Ravikanth" <ravikanth.nalla@hpe.com>
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v2] dm pref-path: provides preferred path load balance policy
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 17:32:28 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160130233228.GF24960@octiron.msp.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160130202525.GE24960@octiron.msp.redhat.com>

On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 02:25:25PM -0600, Benjamin Marzinski wrote:
> Before this commit, it always used the pref bit. Again, like I said
> before, I'm saying that this was the wrong thing to do.  The Spec is

Oops. I meant: "I'm NOT saying that this was the wrong thing to do".

I am also fine with changing the default back to making the pref bit
always create it's own path group. As long there is a way for users to
get either behavior, I'm happy.

-Ben

> pretty vague on what you should expect to happen when you set to pref
> bit.  When the path was in a group by itself, I got complaints. Now that
> the path is is a group with other active/optimized paths, I get
> complaints.  The only answer is to allow the user to say what they want
> the pref bit to mean.
> 
> -Ben 

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-30 23:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-22 13:31 [PATCH v2] dm pref-path: provides preferred path load balance policy Ravikanth Nalla
2016-01-22 13:42 ` Hannes Reinecke
2016-01-22 16:59   ` Mike Snitzer
2016-01-22 16:59     ` Mike Snitzer
2016-01-29 14:10     ` Nalla, Ravikanth
2016-01-29 14:10       ` Nalla, Ravikanth
2016-01-29 17:50       ` Benjamin Marzinski
2016-01-30  8:32         ` Hannes Reinecke
2016-01-30 20:25           ` Benjamin Marzinski
2016-01-30 23:32             ` Benjamin Marzinski [this message]
2016-01-22 17:06 ` [dm-devel] " Benjamin Marzinski

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