Re: [PATCH 0/7] drbd: preparation for DRBD 9

[Jens Axboe]

On 11/9/26 10:22 AM, Christoph Böhmwalder wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2026 at 04:06:01PM +0200, Christoph Böhmwalder wrote:
>> This series contains preparatory changes for bringing DRBD 9 upstream.
>> Each patch moves a piece of the in-tree DRBD 8.4 code to the form it
>> has in the out-of-tree DRBD 9 code. Doing these steps separately and
>> up front keeps them out of the much larger rework that follows, so
>> that rework shows only what DRBD 9 actually changes.
>>
>> The patches are a file rename, comment and internal cleanups, and two
>> higher configuration maximums. Defaults are unchanged, all existing
>> configurations remain valid, and apart from those limits only the
>> wording of some log messages is visible to userspace.
>>
>> Christoph Böhmwalder (7):
>>  drbd: rename drbd_worker.c to drbd_sender.c
>>  drbd: modernize the file header comments
>>  drbd: raise the socket buffer size limits to 128 MiB
>>  drbd: raise the maximum resync rate to 8 GiB/s
>>  drbd: replace the drbd_interval bitfields with a type and flags
>>  drbd: move the packet name table to drbd_strings.c
>>  drbd: rate limit log messages per object
>>
>> drivers/block/drbd/Makefile                   |   2 +-
>> drivers/block/drbd/drbd_actlog.c              |  16 +-
>> drivers/block/drbd/drbd_bitmap.c              |  18 +-
>> drivers/block/drbd/drbd_debugfs.c             |   4 +
>> drivers/block/drbd/drbd_debugfs.h             |   4 +
>> drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h                 |  59 +++-
>> drivers/block/drbd/drbd_interval.c            |   4 +
>> drivers/block/drbd/drbd_interval.h            |  55 +++-
>> drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c                | 106 ++------
>> drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c                  |  15 +-
>> drivers/block/drbd/drbd_polymorph_printk.h    | 256 ++++++++++++------
>> drivers/block/drbd/drbd_proc.c                |  10 +-
>> drivers/block/drbd/drbd_protocol.h            |   4 +
>> drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c            |  61 +++--
>> drivers/block/drbd/drbd_req.c                 |  40 ++-
>> drivers/block/drbd/drbd_req.h                 |  12 +-
>> .../drbd/{drbd_worker.c => drbd_sender.c}     |  42 ++-
>> drivers/block/drbd/drbd_state.c               |  15 +-
>> drivers/block/drbd/drbd_strings.c             | 138 ++++++++--
>> drivers/block/drbd/drbd_strings.h             |  27 +-
>> drivers/block/drbd/drbd_vli.h                 |  12 +-
>> include/uapi/linux/drbd.h                     |  12 +-
>> include/uapi/linux/drbd_limits.h              |  12 +-
>> 23 files changed, 534 insertions(+), 390 deletions(-)
>> rename drivers/block/drbd/{drbd_worker.c => drbd_sender.c} (98%)
>>
>>
>> base-commit: 85bffad4d2fea373a72d68bed8012e8cbccb8ee7
>> -- 
>> 2.55.0
>>
> 
> Hi Jens,
> 
> this never got a reply, and neither did the subsequent v2 drbd rework series
> that's based on it [1].
> I think this should still apply to 7.5, would you mind queueing it up?
> 
> Thanks,
> Christoph
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/20261006154607.3936501-1-christoph.boehmwalder@xxxxxxxxxx/

Queued up now, v2 doesn't apply anymore fwiw.

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Jens Axboe