Thanks.
Patch pushed.

On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 1:54 PM, Hannes Reinecke <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 10/03/2016 01:02 PM, Christophe Varoqui wrote:
> > Hi Xose,
> >
> > Group by serial sure can make sense for hardware not capable of multibus.
> >
> > Can you or Hannes (listed as maintainer for IBM) confirm the concerned
> > IBM arrays are multibus capable ?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Christophe Varoqui
> > OpenSVC
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 7:58 PM, Xose Vazquez Perez
> > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> >     It doesn't make any sense to have, by default, GROUP_BY_SERIAL in
> >     real hardware.
> >
> >     Cc: Hannes Reinecke <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> >     Cc: Christophe Varoqui <[email protected]
> >     <mailto:[email protected]>>
> >     Cc: device-mapper development <[email protected]
> >     <mailto:[email protected]>>
> >     Signed-off-by: Xose Vazquez Perez <[email protected]
> >     <mailto:[email protected]>>
> >     ---
> >      libmultipath/hwtable.c | 4 ++--
> >      1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> >     diff --git a/libmultipath/hwtable.c b/libmultipath/hwtable.c
> >     index aa3ea9b..72b5e1d 100644
> >     --- a/libmultipath/hwtable.c
> >     +++ b/libmultipath/hwtable.c
> >     @@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ static struct hwentry default_hw[] = {
> >                     /* DS4200 / FAStT200 */
> >                     .vendor        = "IBM",
> >                     .product       = "^3542",
> >     -               .pgpolicy      = GROUP_BY_SERIAL,
> >     +               .pgpolicy      = MULTIBUS,
> >                     .pgfailback    = FAILBACK_UNDEF,
> >             },
> This is the IBM FAStT 200, which is IIRC an RDAC machine. So multibus
> will be wrong here, and it should be using the RDAC entry instead.
>
> >             {
> >     @@ -451,7 +451,7 @@ static struct hwentry default_hw[] = {
> >                     .vendor        = "IBM",
> >                     .product       = "^2105",
> >                     .no_path_retry = NO_PATH_RETRY_QUEUE,
> >     -               .pgpolicy      = GROUP_BY_SERIAL,
> >     +               .pgpolicy      = MULTIBUS,
> >                     .pgfailback    = FAILBACK_UNDEF,
> >             },
> >             {
> That's the old IBM ESS 800; this is a fully symmetric active-active
> array. So yes, multibus is correct here.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Hannes
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