[DRBD-user] drbd-9.2.0

2022-10-10 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hello, I am proud and glad to announce drbd-9.2.0. It is a new feature release, bringing: 1) Lower latency for mirrored write requests Every mirrored write request gets completed one scheduler context switch earlier. This is a result of better integration with the networking stack. 2) Lower cont

[DRBD-user] drbd-9.2.0-rc.8

2022-09-28 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hello, Finally, the RDMA transport got the long necessary attention. Now it tests successfully on RHEL9 clones. And, BTW, we enabled also all of the regular tests, that test network interruption via iptables also for the RDMA transport. (iptables can only fetch RoCE packets with rdma_rxe, the soft

[DRBD-user] drbd-9.2.0-rc.7

2022-08-30 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi, we think that we fixed all known issues in the drbd-9.2 branch. (With the exception of the RDMA transport, which still has known issues) This time it comes with a new feature: Support for network namespaces That means that a drbd path (the part of a drbd connection that has IP addresses), wi

[DRBD-user] drbd-9.2.0-rc.3

2021-12-20 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hello, and here is the 3rd release candidate for drbd-9.2.0 It turned out that in the new coordination between resync and application IOs a corner case was not properly considered. Fixed and tested this, now we are turning back to the community and asking you if you find a way to break it. We wi

[DRBD-user] drbd-9.2.0-rc.2

2021-12-14 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hi, drbd-9.2.0 gets a second release candidate. Accidentally, rc.1 broke wire protocol compatibility with all earlier DRBD releases. That is fixed in rc.2 of course. The other change relates to the DKMS build process on kernels that have CONFIG_INFINIBAND not set. We give it at least another wee

[DRBD-user] drbd-9.2.0-rc.1, drbd-9.1.5-rc.1, drbd-9.0.32-0rc1

2021-12-06 Thread Philipp Reisner
Hello, Nikolaus/Saint Nicholas brings you the first triple release of DRBD. For 9.0 we got a dividend from the WinDRBD effort. There was an access-after-free bug hiding in the code, that is no issue when DRBD is running in the Linux kernel since the Linux kernel does not un-map the addresses afte