Re: [PATCH 0/2] dm mpath: Interface for explicit probing of active paths

[Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>]

On Thu, 2025-05-15 at 12:11 +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 14.05.2025 um 23:21 hat Martin Wilck geschrieben:

> 
> > In the long term, we should evaluate alternatives. If my conjecture
> > in
> > my previous post is correct we need only PRIN/PROUT commands, there
> > might be a better solution than scsi-block for our customers. Using
> > regular block IO should actually also improved performance.
> 
> If you're talking about SG_IO in dm-mpath, then PRIN/PROUT commands
> are
> actually the one thing that we don't need. libmpathpersist sends the
> commands to the individual path devices, so dm-mpath will never see
> those. It's mostly about getting the full results on the SCSI level
> for
> normal I/O commands.

I know. I meant "need" from the PoV of the guest, in the sense "which
commands need to be passed from the guessed to the device (in some
reasonable way) except the normal READ and WRITE commands?".

Regards
Martin