Re: [DRBD-user] [PATCH] xen-blkback: Switch to closed state after releasing the backing device

[Valentin Vidic <Valentin.Vidic@CARNet.hr>]

On Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 07:14:59PM +0200, Valentin Vidic wrote:
> In fact the first one is the original code path before I modified
> blkback.  The problem is it gets executed async from workqueue so
> it might not always run before the call to drbdadm secondary.

As the DRBD device gets released only when the last IO request
has finished, I found a way to check and wait for this in the
block-drbd script:

--- block-drbd.orig     2018-09-08 09:07:23.499648515 +0200
+++ block-drbd  2018-09-08 09:28:12.892193649 +0200
@@ -230,6 +230,24 @@
 and so cannot be mounted ${m2}${when}."
 }
 
+wait_for_inflight()
+{
+  local dev="$1"
+  local inflight="/sys/block/${dev#/dev/}/inflight"
+  local rd wr
+
+  if ! [ -f "$inflight" ]; then
+    return
+  fi
+
+  while true; do
+    read rd wr < $inflight
+    if [ "$rd" = "0" -a "$wr" = "0" ]; then
+      return
+    fi
+    sleep 1
+  done
+}
 
 t=$(xenstore_read_default "$XENBUS_PATH/type" 'MISSING')
 
@@ -285,6 +303,8 @@
         drbd_lrole="${drbd_role%%/*}"
         drbd_dev="$(drbdadm sh-dev $drbd_resource)"
 
+        wait_for_inflight $drbd_dev
+
         if [ "$drbd_lrole" != 'Secondary' ]; then
           drbdadm secondary $drbd_resource
         fi

-- 
Valentin