From: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
To: hch@lst.de, kbusch@kernel.org, martin.petersen@oracle.com,
james.bottomley@hansenpartnership.com, hare@suse.com,
bmarzins@redhat.com
Cc: jmeneghi@redhat.com, linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org,
sagi@grimberg.me, axboe@fb.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
michael.christie@oracle.com, snitzer@kernel.org,
dm-devel@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
nilay@linux.ibm.com, John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/8] scsi-multipath: Basic ALUA support
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:49:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260310114925.1222263-1-john.g.garry@oracle.com> (raw)
This series adds basic ALUA support for native SCSI multipath. Only
support to send a one-time RTPG is added to get per-path information.
I want to add more ALUA support, for things like ALUA configuration from
device rescan. The DH-based ALUA code already supports this. However
separating the DH ALUA port group management code from the rest of the
DH code is difficult, so I am looking for suggestions on this. There is
a consensus to not reuse the device handler code, but it is intertwined
with the ALUA driver code in scsi_dh_alua.c
An initial framework is also added to send a periodic TUR per path, to
keep path information up-to-date.
This series is based on https://lore.kernel.org/linux-scsi/20260225153627.1032500-1-john.g.garry@oracle.com/T/#m76b3a2756124e13b5564c434a38f9c51f64f0bbc
and may be found at https://github.com/johnpgarry/linux/tree/scsi-multipath-pre-7.0-upstream-alua
John Garry (8):
libmultipath: add mpath_call_for_all_devices()
scsi: scsi_dh_alua: Do not attach for SCSI native multipath
scsi: scsi_dh_alua: Pass submit_rtpg() a bool for extended header
support
scsi: Create a core ALUA driver
scsi: scsi-multipath: Add basic ALUA support
scsi: scsi-multipath: Maintain sdev->access_state
scsi: scsi-multipath: Issue a periodic TUR per path
scsi: scsi-multipath: Add stubbed scsi_multipath_dev_rescan()
drivers/scsi/Kconfig | 9 +
drivers/scsi/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/scsi/device_handler/Kconfig | 1 +
drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_alua.c | 202 +-------------------
drivers/scsi/scsi_alua.c | 204 ++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/scsi/scsi_multipath.c | 206 ++++++++++++++++++++-
drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c | 2 +
drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c | 2 +-
include/linux/multipath.h | 2 +
include/scsi/scsi_alua.h | 50 +++++
include/scsi/scsi_multipath.h | 8 +
lib/multipath.c | 15 ++
12 files changed, 501 insertions(+), 201 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 drivers/scsi/scsi_alua.c
create mode 100644 include/scsi/scsi_alua.h
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2.43.5
next reply other threads:[~2026-03-10 11:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-10 11:49 John Garry [this message]
2026-03-10 11:49 ` [PATCH 1/8] libmultipath: add mpath_call_for_all_devices() John Garry
2026-03-10 11:49 ` [PATCH 2/8] scsi: scsi_dh_alua: Do not attach for SCSI native multipath John Garry
2026-03-10 11:49 ` [PATCH 3/8] scsi: scsi_dh_alua: Pass submit_rtpg() a bool for extended header support John Garry
2026-03-10 11:49 ` [PATCH 4/8] scsi: Create a core ALUA driver John Garry
2026-03-14 4:35 ` Benjamin Marzinski
2026-03-16 9:12 ` John Garry
2026-03-10 11:49 ` [PATCH 5/8] scsi: scsi-multipath: Add basic ALUA support John Garry
2026-03-10 13:23 ` Hannes Reinecke
2026-03-10 15:52 ` John Garry
2026-03-10 17:54 ` Hannes Reinecke
2026-03-10 18:13 ` John Garry
2026-03-14 4:48 ` Benjamin Marzinski
2026-03-16 9:25 ` John Garry
2026-03-10 11:49 ` [PATCH 6/8] scsi: scsi-multipath: Maintain sdev->access_state John Garry
2026-03-10 13:27 ` Hannes Reinecke
2026-03-10 15:54 ` John Garry
2026-03-10 11:49 ` [PATCH 7/8] scsi: scsi-multipath: Issue a periodic TUR per path John Garry
2026-03-10 13:34 ` Hannes Reinecke
2026-03-10 17:21 ` John Garry
2026-03-10 11:49 ` [PATCH 8/8] scsi: scsi-multipath: Add stubbed scsi_multipath_dev_rescan() John Garry
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