Description of problem: While I/O on dm multipath devices , we are seeing frequent path failures which leads to unexpected I/O failover. Snippet of syslog during failure : **************************************** scsi(2:1:16) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x0. resid=0x7fff8fff fw_resid=0x7fff8fff cdb=0x28 os_underflow=0xf400 srb_flags=0x2 scsi(2:0:1:16) Dropped frame(s) detected (7fff8fff of f400 bytes)...retrying command. scsi(2:1:16) qla2x00_done: did_error = 2, comp-scsi= 0x15-0x0 pid=102056310. SCSI error : <2 0 1 16> return code = 0x20000 end_request: I/O error, dev sdbm, sector 4192702 end_request: I/O error, dev sdbm, sector 4192708 device-mapper: dm-multipath: Failing path 68:0. As per our understanding, We are seeing paths marked as failed for which it returns the status as DID_BUS_BUSY. What we understand here is, since IO's on multipath devices have BIO_RW_FAILFAST set (hence REQ_FASTFAIL ), retries are not allowed at SCSI mid layer for errors such as QUEUEFULL, UNDERRUN..(as captured in the above syslog snippet) and so on. Is there any way to override this BIO_RW_FAILFAST for retries to happen in order to avoid unexpected path failure. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Present atleast 50 device(Logical Units) with 8 paths to the Host 2. Start I/O on those 50 deivices. 3. Syslog captures "SCSI error" and "dm-multipath: Failing path" Actual results: Unexpected path failure is seeing during the I/O. Expected results: Additional info: 1.multipath.conf setting: device { vendor "HP" product "HSV210" path_grouping_policy group_by_prio getuid_callout "/sbin/scsi_id -g -u -s /block/%n" path_checker tur path_selector "round-robin 0" prio_callout "/sbin/mpath_prio_alua %n" rr_weight uniform failback immediate hardware_handler "0" no_path_retry 60 }
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 244967 ***