[Drbd-dev] Get drbd-9.0 branch building with Linux 5.9 and 5.10

Michael Labriola michael.d.labriola at gmail.com
Mon Dec 14 16:35:05 CET 2020


Thanks, Christoph.  I've been using DRBD for 15+ years, so it's about time
I officially contributed something other than bug reports.  ;-)

On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 5:18 AM Christoph Böhmwalder <
christoph.boehmwalder at linbit.com> wrote:

> Hi Michael,
>
> Thanks for this great contribution!
>
> Unfortunately, we duplicated some work here, but neither of us could
> have known that :)
> Over the last few days I fabricated some patches that fix some of the
> same problems, ultimately leading to the same result.
>
> I'll review your patches – on first glance it seems like some of your
> approaches may actually be better than mine. If the patches are exactly
> the same, I'll attribute you since you published your patches first.
> I'll mix and match with my patches, since they are more thorough in some
> places (for example, I did go to the trouble of creating a compat test
> for sched_setscheduler()).
>
> Some of these patches are still under internal review, so this may take
> some time, but I'll let you know which of yours I chose.
>
> Thanks again!
>
> --
> Christoph Böhmwalder
> LINBIT | Keeping the Digital World Running
> DRBD HA —  Disaster Recovery — Software defined Storage
>
> On 12/13/20 6:58 AM, Michael D Labriola wrote:
> > Hey, everyone! I had the chance to try building the latest drbd-9.0
> > code against the 5.9 and 5.10 kernels this afternoon. Things almost
> > built, but not quite.  I made a series of commits to get things
> > compiling.  Most of it is trivial compat test changes and following
> > along w/ what's already been done in the mainline drbd8 module to get
> > it ready for 5.10.
> >
> > I did not create a compat test for the switch from
> > sched_setscheduler() to sched_set_fifo_low() yet.  Mostly, because
> > I've never done that and have to wrap my head around how to add
> > another test. ;-)
> >
> > I tried submitting a pull request via github, but got the auto-close
> > message.  So, here's take two.
> >
> >
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