Re: [PATCH 0/4] scsi: scsi_dh_alua: handle target port unavailable state

2017-04-10 Thread Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
On 04/10/2017 10:17 PM, Mauricio Faria de Oliveira wrote: For documentation purposes, I'll reply to this cover letter with the analysis of such cases of this problem, and the accompanying messages from kernel logs. Here it goes, for anyone interested. Scenario: 4 LUNs, 2 target port groups (PGs

[PATCH 0/4] scsi: scsi_dh_alua: handle target port unavailable state

2017-04-10 Thread Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
This patch series resolves a problem in which all paths of a multipath device became _permanently_ failed after a storage system had moved both controllers into a _temporarily_ unavailable state (that is SCSI_ACCESS_STATE_UNAVAILABLE). This happened because once scsi_dh_alua had set the 'pg->state