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From: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
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Subject: Re: [Drbd-dev] Re: drbd uses wrong API for struct bio
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:29:24 +0100
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Am Montag, 24. Januar 2005 11:28 schrieb Lars Marowsky-Bree:
> On 2005-01-24T11:23:10, Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote:
> > Yes, that is what would be nice to fix :-)
> >
> > Make drbd_ee_init() just init the bastard, and add the page in
> > prepare().
>
> In theory you're right, but drbd seems to use this as a cache and
> allocate the page just once, but fills it with different data of
> different sizes over time, or at least that's what it looks like.
>

This is true.

> I'm not sure that's easily fixed.
>

What ?

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