[PATCH 0/5] Failover criteria unification

[Mike Snitzer]

On Thu, Jan 04 2018 at  5:46pm -0500,
Keith Busch <keith.busch at intel.com> wrote:

> The nvme native multipath provided a separate NVMe status decoder,
> complicating maintenance as new statuses need to be accounted for. This
> was already diverging from the generic nvme status decoder, which has
> implications for other components that rely on accurate generic block
> errors.
> 
> This series unifies common code among nvme and device-mapper multipath
> so that user experience regarding the failover fate of a command is the
> same.
> 
> Mike:
> 
> I split this up because I thought there'd be trouble merging the dm
> mpath update with the inverted retry logic, but I think you may have
> rebased the dm-4.16 without that patch, as I'm not seeing it in the most
> current branch.

Right, I dropped that patch since it'd have only resulted in conflicts
come merge time.  As such, this series can easily go through the nvme
tree to Jens.