_tl_restart(9)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay so bestie, this is _tl_restart(9) from the Kernel API Manual — the function that walks the transfer log, and applies an action to all requests. It’s giving cleanup-with-purpose energy, fr fr. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

No cap, the signature is exactly this:

void _tl_restart (struct drbd_connection *connection , enum drbd_req_event what );

💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• connection — the DRBD connection to operate on. That’s the main character here.
• what — the action/event to perform with all request objects. Yep, it’s the vibe selector.

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So what might be one of CONNECTION_LOST_WHILE_PENDING, RESEND, FAIL_FROZEN_DISK_IO, or RESTART_FROZEN_DISK_IO. Those are the four names on the guest list, and that’s the whole description, bestie — periodt. ✨

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file ./drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c is also on the list, and these are the SEE ALSO besties:

• tl_release(9)
• tl_clear(9)
• tl_abort_disk_io(9)
• drbd_thread_current_set_cpu(9)
• drbd_send_current_state(9)
• drbd_send_state(9)
• _drbd_send_ack(9)
• drbd_send_ack(9)
• drbd_md_sync(9)
• drbd_md_read(9)
• drbd_md_mark_dirty(9)
• drbd_uuid_new_current(9)
• drbd_bmio_set_n_write(9)
• drbd_bmio_clear_n_write(9)
• drbd_queue_bitmap_io(9)
• drbd_bitmap_io(9)
• drbd_wait_misc(9)

catch you later, babe — this page is from ./drivers/block/drbd, dated October 2026, and it’s literally _tl_restart(9) 💅🫶