Re: [PATCH 2/5] multipath-tools: clarify path selector descriptions in multipath.conf.5

Martin Wilck <[email protected]>
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.dm-devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, 2026-06-13 at 15:09 +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
> Selectors operate on the next individual I/O request rather
> than a "bunch" of I/O.

This patch doesn't apply cleanly to any of my branches (master, queue,
tip).

> 
> Suggested-by: Benjamin Marzinski <[email protected]>
> Cc: Martin Wilck <[email protected]>
> Cc: Benjamin Marzinski <[email protected]>
> Cc: Christophe Varoqui <[email protected]>
> Cc: DM_DEVEL-ML <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Xose Vazquez Perez <[email protected]>
> ---
>  multipath/multipath.conf.5.in | 12 +++++-------
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/multipath/multipath.conf.5.in
> b/multipath/multipath.conf.5.in
> index 422ab120..287441bd 100644
> --- a/multipath/multipath.conf.5.in
> +++ b/multipath/multipath.conf.5.in
> @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
>  .\" Update the date below if you make any significant change.
>  .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------
>  .
> -.TH MULTIPATH.CONF 5 2026-05-27 Linux
> +.TH MULTIPATH.CONF 5 2026-06-13 Linux
>  .
>  .
>  .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------
> @@ -193,20 +193,18 @@ kernel multipath target:
>  .RS
>  .TP
>  .I "round-robin 0"
> -Choose the path for the next bunch of I/O by looping through every
> path in the
> -path group, sending \fBthe same number of I/O requests\fR to each
> path.
> -
> +Choose the path for the next I/O request by \fBcycling through the
> path group\fR.

I think "group" should be replaced by "groups" here.

Martin
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