nvme-multipath: Add visibility for round-robin io-policy
This patch helps add nvme native multipath visibility for round-robin io-policy. It creates a "multipath" sysfs directory under head gendisk device node directory and then from "multipath" directory it adds a link to each namespace path device the head node refers. For instance, if we have a shared namespace accessible from two different controllers/paths then we create a soft link to each path device from head disk node as shown below: $ ls -l /sys/block/nvme1n1/multipath/ nvme1c1n1 -> ../../../../../pci052e:78/052e:78:00.0/nvme/nvme1/nvme1c1n1 nvme1c3n1 -> ../../../../../pci058e:78/058e:78:00.0/nvme/nvme3/nvme1c3n1 In the above example, nvme1n1 is head gendisk node created for a shared namespace and the namespace is accessible from nvme1c1n1 and nvme1c3n1 paths. For round-robin I/O policy, we could easily infer from the above output that I/O workload targeted to nvme1n1 would toggle across paths nvme1c1n1 and nvme1c3n1. Reviewed-by:Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
Nilay Shroff <nilay@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
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