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[SCSI] scsi_dh_alua: Add module parameter to allow failover to non preferred path...
authorStewart, Sean <Sean.Stewart@netapp.com>
Thu, 4 Apr 2013 14:54:47 +0000 (14:54 +0000)
committerJames Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
Thu, 11 Apr 2013 23:00:31 +0000 (16:00 -0700)
commit7a3ad3920de780e3da1dacabe3c0abcd5b260655
tree48d7fc39bb99ca4154f429dbdb0dfcbc73e5c0dc
parent93f91dfa732eead8fbc938256b6883a93b847021
[SCSI] scsi_dh_alua: Add module parameter to allow failover to non preferred path without STPG

Resending with requested rewording of the parameter description.  Currently
ALUA device handler sends STPG command during failover and failback.  Failover
can be optimized by implicit failover (by not to sending STPG command), when 1
is passed as hwhandler parameter in multipath.conf. ex "2 alua 1". We may need
to pass the parameter through module param for alua device handler to optimize
failover if incase retain_attached_hwhandler set in multipath.conf and
hwhandler is set with non-tpgs device handler ex: '1 rdac'.

[jejb: fix up whitespace and other issues]
Signed-off-by: Vijay Chauhan <vijay.chauhan@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Stewart <Sean.Stewart@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_alua.c