From: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
To: hch@lst.de, kbusch@kernel.org, sagi@grimberg.me, axboe@fb.com,
martin.petersen@oracle.com,
james.bottomley@hansenpartnership.com, hare@suse.com,
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Cc: jmeneghi@redhat.com, linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org,
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John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 00/13] nvme: switch to libmultipath
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:12:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260428111256.1778475-1-john.g.garry@oracle.com> (raw)
This switches the NVMe host driver to use libmultipath. That library
is very heavily based on the NVMe multipath code, so the change over
should hopefully be straightforward. There is often a direct replacement
for functions.
The multipath functionality in nvme_ns_head and nvme_ns structures are
replaced with the mpath_head and mpath_device structures.
It's hard to switch to libmulipath in a step-by-step fashion without
breaking builds or functionality. To make the series reviewable, I took
the approach of adding libmultipath-based code, which would initially be
unused, and then finally making the full switch.
I think that more testing is required here and any help on that would be
appreciated.
The series is based on 8658b6054439 (nvme/nvme-7.1) nvme-auth: Include
SC_C in RVAL controller hash
Full series also available at
https://github.com/johnpgarry/linux/commits/scsi-multipath-pre-7.1-upstream-v2/
Differences to v1 (apart from porting changes for v2 libmultipath):
- always depend on LIBMULTIAPTH and drop nvme_ns_head.ns_count
- add nvme_add_ns() and nvme_delete_ns()
- init .drv_module (Nilay)
- condense code
John Garry (13):
nvme-multipath: pass NS head to nvme_mpath_revalidate_paths()
nvme-multipath: add initial support for using libmultipath
nvme-multipath: add nvme_mpath_available_path()
nvme-multipath: add nvme_mpath_{add, remove}_cdev()
nvme-multipath: add nvme_mpath_is_{disabled, optimised}
nvme-multipath: add nvme_mpath_cdev_ioctl()
nvme-multipath: add uring_cmd support
nvme-multipath: add nvme_mpath_get_iopolicy()
nvme-multipath: add nvme_mpath_synchronize()
nvme-multipath: add nvme_{add,delete}_ns()
nvme-multipath: add nvme_mpath_head_queue_if_no_path()
nvme-multipath: add nvme_mpath_get_nr_active()
nvme-multipath: switch to use libmultipath
drivers/nvme/host/Kconfig | 1 +
drivers/nvme/host/core.c | 88 ++--
drivers/nvme/host/ioctl.c | 108 ++--
drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c | 897 +++++++---------------------------
drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h | 136 +++---
drivers/nvme/host/pr.c | 18 -
drivers/nvme/host/sysfs.c | 86 +---
7 files changed, 337 insertions(+), 997 deletions(-)
--
2.43.5
next reply other threads:[~2026-04-28 11:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-28 11:12 John Garry [this message]
2026-04-28 11:12 ` [PATCH v2 01/13] nvme-multipath: pass NS head to nvme_mpath_revalidate_paths() John Garry
2026-04-28 11:12 ` [PATCH v2 02/13] nvme-multipath: add initial support for using libmultipath John Garry
2026-04-28 11:12 ` [PATCH v2 03/13] nvme-multipath: add nvme_mpath_available_path() John Garry
2026-04-28 11:12 ` [PATCH v2 04/13] nvme-multipath: add nvme_mpath_{add, remove}_cdev() John Garry
2026-04-28 11:12 ` [PATCH v2 05/13] nvme-multipath: add nvme_mpath_is_{disabled, optimised} John Garry
2026-04-28 11:12 ` [PATCH v2 06/13] nvme-multipath: add nvme_mpath_cdev_ioctl() John Garry
2026-04-28 11:12 ` [PATCH v2 07/13] nvme-multipath: add uring_cmd support John Garry
2026-04-28 11:12 ` [PATCH v2 08/13] nvme-multipath: add nvme_mpath_get_iopolicy() John Garry
2026-04-28 11:12 ` [PATCH v2 09/13] nvme-multipath: add nvme_mpath_synchronize() John Garry
2026-04-28 11:12 ` [PATCH v2 10/13] nvme-multipath: add nvme_{add,delete}_ns() John Garry
2026-04-28 11:12 ` [PATCH v2 11/13] nvme-multipath: add nvme_mpath_head_queue_if_no_path() John Garry
2026-04-28 11:12 ` [PATCH v2 12/13] nvme-multipath: add nvme_mpath_get_nr_active() John Garry
2026-04-28 11:12 ` [PATCH v2 13/13] nvme-multipath: switch to use libmultipath John Garry
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