Re: for-next branch and blktests/srp

[Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>]

On Thu, 2018-12-06 at 11:12 -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 12/6/18 11:10 AM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > On Thu, 2018-12-06 at 10:02 -0800, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2018-12-06 at 10:48 -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > > which would result in a non-zero exit, which should be expected for this
> > > > test?
> > > 
> > > Test srp/002 simulates network failures while running fio on top of dm-mpath.
> > > Since queue_if_no_path is enabled in multipath.conf dm-mpath will keep retrying
> > > the block layer requests it receives if these requests fail due to path removal.
> > > If fio reports "io_u error" for this test then that means that the test failed.
> > > I haven't seen fio reporting any I/O errors for this test with any upstream
> > > kernel that I tested in the past year or so.
> > 
> > Hi Jens,
> > 
> > Please also verify that the version of multipath-tools that you are running includes
> > the following patch:
> 
> I installed from apt... Says this:
> 
> # apt show multipath-tools
> Package: multipath-tools
> Version: 0.6.4-5+deb9u1
> 
> I can run a self-compiled one, if this one doesn't work.

Please do. I use the following script to build and install multipath-tools
over the Debian binaries:

export LIB=/lib
apt-get install -y libaio-dev libdevmapper-dev libjson-c-dev librados-dev libreadline-dev libsystemd-dev liburcu-dev
make -s 
make -s install

Bart.