[PATCH 00/10] nvme multipath support on top of nvme-4.13 branch

Anish Jhaveri anish.jhaveri at paviliondata.com
Mon Sep 18 22:10:37 PDT 2017


On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 08:07:01PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi Anish,
> 
> I looked over the code a bit, and I'm rather confused by the newly
> added commands.  Which controller supports them?  Also the NVMe
> working group went down a very different way with the ALUA approch,
> which uses different grouping concepts and doesn't require path
> activations - for Linux we'd really like to stick to only standardized
> multipath implementations.
Hi Christoph, 
Thanks for looking over the code. The newly added commands were to
support Asymmetric NVME Namespace Subsystem. Though, I can remove
those commands and make it active-active configuration. I noticed
you have sent out the review with changes adding new structures
and functions which makes it very similar in terms of implementation.
The only reason I proposed given changes, as it doesn't require any 
change to kernel. 




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