[multipath] disabling lock_fs call on DM_DEVICE_RESUME libdevmapper ioctl
This patch to dm_simplecmd of multipath-tools/libmultipath/devmapper.c will
disable the use of lock_fs during I/O suspension while changing
dm-multipath
device mapper maps via the DM_DEVICE_RESUME ioctl of libdevmapper.
Disabling lock_fs will result in not flushing I/O to the dm-multipath block
device before changing the maps for the mapped device. Flushing I/O at
this
time appears not only unnecessary for dm-multipath devices but causes some
troublesome delays due to SCSI HBA driver target-side timeouts when these
maps are changed as a result of paths coming and going while upgrading
software (a non-disruptive ucode upgrade) on a storage system.
As is the case for any change which is dependent on similar changes in
libdevmapper and the kernel, this patch will introduce a dependency on
libdevmapper and kernel. Not sure which versions first had this support
but
at least libdevmapper 1.02.02 and linux kernel version 2.6.18-rc2 have the
required support.
Edward Goggin, EMC