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Add support in multipathd for NVMe to listen for FPIN-Li events and mark effected paths as marginal

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      .`multipathd` now supports detecting FPIN-Li events for NVMe devices

      Previously, the `multipathd` command would only monitor Integrity Fabric Performance Impact Notification (PFIN-Li) events on SCSI devices. `multipathd` could listen for Link Integrity events sent by a Fibre Channel fabric and use it to mark paths as marginal. This feature was only supported for multipath devices on top of SCSI devices, and `multipathd` was unable to mark Non-volatile Memory Express (NVMe) device paths as marginal by limiting the use of this feature.

      With this update, `multipathd` supports detecting FPIN-Li events for both SCSI and NVMe devices. As a result, multipath now does not use paths without a good fabric connection, while other paths are available. This helps to avoid IO delays in such situations.
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      .`multipathd` now supports detecting FPIN-Li events for NVMe devices Previously, the `multipathd` command would only monitor Integrity Fabric Performance Impact Notification (PFIN-Li) events on SCSI devices. `multipathd` could listen for Link Integrity events sent by a Fibre Channel fabric and use it to mark paths as marginal. This feature was only supported for multipath devices on top of SCSI devices, and `multipathd` was unable to mark Non-volatile Memory Express (NVMe) device paths as marginal by limiting the use of this feature. With this update, `multipathd` supports detecting FPIN-Li events for both SCSI and NVMe devices. As a result, multipath now does not use paths without a good fabric connection, while other paths are available. This helps to avoid IO delays in such situations.
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      Description of problem:
      Needs to add a support to Handle FPIN-li events for NVMe in multipathd.
      At present we have the support for only scsi devices(EP).

      When link integrity issues are detected on a Fibre Channel fabric,
      A Link Integrity Fabric Performance Impact Notification (FPIN-Li) can be send to a node.
      If multipathd listens for these events, it can use them to control a path's marginal status,
      instead of trying to detect marginal paths internally.
      The path will remain marginal until a registered state change notification (RSCN) or Link Up event is received.

      Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
      RHEL8.10

      Actual results:
      Multipathd has a more robust method of detecting marginal paths on Fibre Channel fabrics that can issue PFIN-Li events.

      Additional info:
      This feature which support scsi is already part of RHEL9.0 and RHEL8.7

              rhn-engineering-bmarzins Benjamin Marzinski
              muneendrakumar_broadcom muneendra.kumar@broadcom.com (Inactive)
              Benjamin Marzinski Benjamin Marzinski
              Lin Li Lin Li
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