From patchwork Tue Jan 8 13:54:13 2013 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Hannes Reinecke X-Patchwork-Id: 1946261 Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork-dm-devel@patchwork.kernel.org Delivered-To: patchwork-process-083081@patchwork2.kernel.org Received: from mx3-phx2.redhat.com (mx3-phx2.redhat.com [209.132.183.24]) by patchwork2.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 699ABDF23A for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2013 13:59:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lists01.pubmisc.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com (lists01.pubmisc.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.19.33]) by mx3-phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id r08Du2dY002344; Tue, 8 Jan 2013 08:56:02 -0500 Received: from int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.11]) by lists01.pubmisc.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id r08DsexX004836 for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2013 08:54:40 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (ext-mx12.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.110.17]) by int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id r08DseRs010479 for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2013 08:54:40 -0500 Received: from mx2.suse.de (cantor2.suse.de [195.135.220.15]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r08DsXn3010057 for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2013 08:54:33 -0500 Received: from relay2.suse.de (unknown [195.135.220.254]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2148A522A; Tue, 8 Jan 2013 14:54:29 +0100 (CET) From: Hannes Reinecke To: Christophe Varoqui Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 14:54:13 +0100 Message-Id: <1357653259-62650-36-git-send-email-hare@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <1357653259-62650-1-git-send-email-hare@suse.de> References: <1357653259-62650-1-git-send-email-hare@suse.de> X-RedHat-Spam-Score: -7.299 (BAYES_00, DCC_REPUT_00_12, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI, RP_MATCHES_RCVD) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 10.5.11.11 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 10.5.110.17 X-loop: dm-devel@redhat.com Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com Subject: [dm-devel] [PATCH 35/42] multipath.conf.5: Clarify dev_loss_tmo settings X-BeenThere: dm-devel@redhat.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: junk Reply-To: device-mapper development List-Id: device-mapper development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com We need to document that dev_loss_tmo is in fact modified by no_path_retry. Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke --- multipath/multipath.conf.5 | 7 ++++++- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/multipath/multipath.conf.5 b/multipath/multipath.conf.5 index 9d6266c..247cdc0 100644 --- a/multipath/multipath.conf.5 +++ b/multipath/multipath.conf.5 @@ -334,9 +334,14 @@ will disable the timeout. .TP .B dev_loss_tmo Specify the number of seconds the scsi layer will wait after a problem has +<<<<<<< HEAD been detected on a FC remote port before removing it from the system. This can be set to "infinity" which sets it to the max value of 2147483647 -seconds, or 68 years. +seconds, or 68 years. It will be automatically adjusted to the overall +retry interval +\fIno_path_retry\fR * \fIpolling_interval\fR +if a number of retries is given with \fIno_path_retry\fR and the +overall retry interval is longer than the specified \fIdev_loss_tmo\fR value. .TP .B queue_without_daemon If set to