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From: Jesse Taube <jtaubepe@redhat.com>
To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>,
	Justin Tee <justin.tee@broadcom.com>,
	Naresh Gottumukkala <nareshgottumukkala83@gmail.com>,
	Paul Ely <paul.ely@broadcom.com>,
	Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	Nilesh Javali <njavali@marvell.com>,
	GR-QLogic-Storage-Upstream@marvell.com,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>, Jesse Taube <jtaubepe@redhat.com>,
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>,
	John Meneghini <jmeneghi@redhat.com>,
	Bryan Gurney <bgurney@redhat.com>,
	Chris Leech <cleech@redhat.com>,
	"Ewan D . Milne" <emilne@redhat.com>,
	shinichiro.kawasaki@wdc.com, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 05/13] nvme-multipath: round-robin support for marginal paths
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:12:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260812181300.3712426-6-jtaubepe@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260812181300.3712426-1-jtaubepe@redhat.com>

Exclude marginal paths from round-robin io policy. In the case where all
paths are marginal and no optimized or non-optimized path is found, we
fall back and perform round-robin on the marginal paths.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Taube <jtaubepe@redhat.com>
---
V10 -> V11:
 - New commit
---
 drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c b/drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c
index dc34634842be..11f474704fdd 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c
@@ -405,6 +405,7 @@ static struct nvme_ns *nvme_next_ns(struct nvme_ns_head *head,
 static struct nvme_ns *nvme_round_robin_path(struct nvme_ns_head *head)
 {
 	struct nvme_ns *ns, *found = NULL;
+	bool found_is_marginal = true;
 	int node = numa_node_id();
 	struct nvme_ns *old = srcu_dereference(head->current_path[node],
 					       &head->srcu);
@@ -425,22 +426,58 @@ static struct nvme_ns *nvme_round_robin_path(struct nvme_ns_head *head)
 			continue;
 
 		if (ns->ana_state == NVME_ANA_OPTIMIZED) {
+			if (found_is_marginal && nvme_ctrl_is_marginal(ns->ctrl)) {
+				/*
+				 * A marginal path has already found,
+				 * or this is the first path found.
+				 * This one is also marginal, but optimized,
+				 * so prefer it.
+				 */
+				found = ns;
+				found_is_marginal = 1;
+				continue;
+			}
+
+
+			/*
+			 * A non-marginal path has already found.
+			 * This one is marginal, so skip it.
+			 */
+			if (nvme_ctrl_is_marginal(ns->ctrl))
+				continue;
+
+			/* Found a non-marginal, optimized path use it. */
 			found = ns;
 			goto out;
 		}
-		if (ns->ana_state == NVME_ANA_NONOPTIMIZED)
+		if (ns->ana_state == NVME_ANA_NONOPTIMIZED) {
+			/*
+			 * A path has already found. This one is marginal,
+			 * so skip it.
+			 */
+			if (found && nvme_ctrl_is_marginal(ns->ctrl))
+				continue;
 			found = ns;
+			found_is_marginal = nvme_ctrl_is_marginal(ns->ctrl);
+		}
 	}
 
 	/*
 	 * The loop above skips the current path for round-robin semantics.
 	 * Fall back to the current path if either:
-	 *  - no other optimized path found and current is optimized,
+	 *  - no other non-marginal optimized path found and current is,
+	 *      optimized and not marginal.
 	 *  - no other usable path found and current is usable.
 	 */
-	if (!nvme_path_is_disabled(old) &&
-	    (old->ana_state == NVME_ANA_OPTIMIZED ||
-	     (!found && old->ana_state == NVME_ANA_NONOPTIMIZED)))
+	/* no other usable path found and current is usable. */
+	if (!nvme_path_is_disabled(old) && !found)
+		return old;
+	/*
+	 * no other non-marginal optimized path found and current is,
+	 *   optimized and not marginal.
+	 */
+	if (!nvme_path_is_disabled(old) && !nvme_ctrl_is_marginal(old->ctrl) &&
+	    (old->ana_state == NVME_ANA_OPTIMIZED || found_is_marginal))
 		return old;
 
 	if (!found)
-- 
2.54.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-08-12 18:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-12 18:12 [PATCH 00/13] nvme-fc: FPIN link integrity handling Jesse Taube
2026-08-12 18:12 ` [PATCH 01/13] fc_els: use 'union fc_tlv_desc' Jesse Taube
2026-08-12 18:12 ` [PATCH 02/13] nvme: add NVME_CTRL_MARGINAL flag Jesse Taube
2026-08-12 18:12 ` [PATCH 03/13] nvme-multipath: numa support for marginal paths Jesse Taube
2026-08-12 18:12 ` [PATCH 04/13] nvme-multipath: queue-depth " Jesse Taube
2026-08-12 18:12 ` Jesse Taube [this message]
2026-08-12 18:12 ` [PATCH 06/13] nvme: sysfs: emit the marginal path state in show_state() Jesse Taube
2026-08-12 18:12 ` [PATCH 07/13] scsi: scsi_transport_fc: Add set_rport_marginal to fc_function_template Jesse Taube
2026-08-12 18:12 ` [PATCH 08/13] scsi: scsi_transport_fc: user support for clearing NVME_CTRL_MARGINAL Jesse Taube
2026-08-12 18:12 ` [PATCH 09/13] nvme-fc: add nvme_fc_set_remoteport_fpin() Jesse Taube
2026-08-12 18:12 ` [PATCH 10/13] scsi: qla2xxx: enable FPIN notification for NVMe Jesse Taube
2026-08-12 18:12 ` [PATCH 11/13] scsi: lpfc: " Jesse Taube
2026-08-12 18:12 ` [PATCH 12/13] nvme: fcloop: Add set_rport_marginal to sysfs Jesse Taube
2026-08-12 18:34   ` Jesse Taube
2026-08-12 18:13 ` [PATCH 13/13] docs: nvme-multipath: Add FC-NVMe marginal state Jesse Taube
2026-08-12 18:46   ` Randy Dunlap
2026-08-12 18:50     ` Randy Dunlap
2026-08-13  4:53 ` [EXTERNAL] [PATCH 00/13] nvme-fc: FPIN link integrity handling Nilesh Javali
2026-08-13 16:24   ` Jesse Taube
2026-08-14  6:36 ` Christoph Hellwig

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