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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

-- 
2.43.5


             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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