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

["Christoph Böhmwalder" <christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com>]

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@linbit.com/