From fa090e708a72f0ea9cbe067fba28cfb2b8b787af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lars Ellenberg Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 18:43:27 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] drbd: keep max-bio size during detach/attach on disconnected primary We want to store in persistent meta data what the peer DRBD can handle, which, due to spreading requests to multiple bios, may be more than its backing device can handle. Otherwise, if a disconnected Primary temporarily loses access to its local data as well, we may accidentally shrink the max-bio setting, portentially causing already assembled, but not yet processed, application bios to be spuriously failed due to device limits. Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c index 2364b781d9ac..a187c5b0da27 100644 --- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c +++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c @@ -1194,8 +1194,14 @@ void drbd_reconsider_max_bio_size(struct drbd_device *device) peer = DRBD_MAX_BIO_SIZE_P95; /* drbd 8.3.8 onwards, before 8.4.0 */ else peer = DRBD_MAX_BIO_SIZE; - } + /* We may later detach and re-attach on a disconnected Primary. + * Avoid this setting to jump back in that case. + * We want to store what we know the peer DRBD can handle, + * not what the peer IO backend can handle. */ + if (peer > device->peer_max_bio_size) + device->peer_max_bio_size = peer; + } new = min(local, peer); if (device->state.role == R_PRIMARY && new < now)