[Drbd-dev] Fixing cluster/heartbeat.c's use of bio_add_page()

[Philipp Reisner]

Hi There,

As was already pointed out Mathieu Avila on Thu, 07 Sep 2006 03:15:25 -0700
that OCFS2 is expecting bio_add_page() to add pages to BIOs in an easily
predictable manner.

That is not true, especially for devices with own merge_bvec_fn().

Therefore OCFS2's heartbeat code is very likely to fail on such devices.

The attached patch corrects this, and reduces the file cluster/heartbeat.c
by 90 lines.

  The whole patch builds around the change that the bio_put() call is
  moved to the bio's bi_end_io() function.
  This makes the whole idea of trying to predict the behaviour of 
  bio_add_page() unnecessary, therefore we can remove compute_max_sectors()
  and o2hb_compute_request_limits().

-Phil

PS1: With that applied I can happily run OCFS2 on a DRBD-8.0 device which
     sits on top of software raid (both have interesting merge_bvec_fn()
     functions.

PS2: I created the ocfs2-fix-bio_add_page.diff on 2.6.17 .
     And later refitted the patch to 2.6.20-rc2.
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