Re: [PATCH v2 12/17] libmultipath: change failed path prio timeout

[Martin Wilck <Martin.Wilck@suse.com>]

On Wed, 2020-02-05 at 12:58 -0600, Benjamin Marzinski wrote:
> multipath will try to get the priority from a PATH_DOWN path, if the
> path doesn't currently have a valid priority. However, if the
> priority
> code needs to contact the device to get the priority, this is likely
> to
> fail for PATH_DOWN paths.  This code dates back to when multipathd
> could
> not easily reload device tables with failed paths, so getting the
> correct priority was important to have a correctly configured device.
> Now multipathd can simply reload the device to move the path to the
> correct pathgroup when the path comes back up.  Since there are a
> number
> of prioritizers that don't require talking to the device, multipath
> shouldn't completely skip attempting to get the priority of these
> paths,
> but it should set a small timeout, so that it isn't hanging in the
> case where it needs to contact a device through a failed path.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
> ---
>  libmultipath/discovery.c | 14 ++++++--------
>  libmultipath/prio.c      |  6 +++---
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>

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