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[ Upstream commit 2361ae595352dec015d14292f1b539242d8446d6 ] SCSI LUN passthrough code such as qemu's "scsi-block" device model pass every IO to the host via SG_IO ioctls. Currently, dm-multipath calls choose_pgpath() only in the block IO code path, not in the ioctl code path (unless current_pgpath is NULL). This has the effect that no path switching and thus no load balancing is done for SCSI-passthrough IO, unless the active path fails. Fix this by using the same logic in multipath_prepare_ioctl() as in multipath_clone_and_map(). Note: The allegedly best path selection algorithm, service-time, still wouldn't work perfectly, because the io size of the current request is always set to 0. Changing that for the IO passthrough case would require the ioctl cmd and arg to be passed to dm's prepare_ioctl() method. Signed-off-by: Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.