Re: [PATCH] dlm: don't set RSB_MASTER_UNCERTAIN on rsb with no master

[Alexander Aring]

Hi,

On Mon, Nov 2, 2026 at 3:03 PM Ameer Hamza <ameer.hamza@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 02, 2026 at 02:49:04PM -0500, Alexander Aring wrote:
> > question:
> >
> > how do you "pause" anything in DLM?
>
> The nodes are VMs, so I freeze the dir node from the QEMU monitor. It
> stays a member but never answers the lookup, and after the cancel I
> evict it through configfs. That is what happens on our HA systems when
> the peer reboots without leaving the lockspace and a pending request
> gets cancelled before the peer is evicted.

Still, do you just randomly freeze it, or do you busy/poll wait on
specific struct field changes?

- Alex