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    dm mpath: switch paths in dm_blk_ioctl() code path · 2361ae59
    Martin Wilck authored
    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: default avatarMartin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarHannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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