From: bfields@fieldses.org (J. Bruce Fields)
To: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Anna Schumaker <schumaker.anna@gmail.com>,
Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>,
Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] SUNRPC: Create sysfs files for changing IP
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 11:59:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210112165911.GH9248@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CE510EA5-1E3F-4516-A948-10A0FF31C94F@oracle.com>
On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 08:09:09AM -0500, Chuck Lever wrote:
> Hi Anna-
>
> > On Jan 11, 2021, at 4:41 PM, schumaker.anna@gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > From: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
> >
> > It's possible for an NFS server to go down but come back up with a
> > different IP address. These patches provide a way for administrators to
> > handle this issue by providing a new IP address for xprt sockets to
> > connect to.
> >
> > This is a first draft of the code, so any thoughts or suggestions would
> > be greatly appreciated!
>
> One implementation question, one future question.
>
> Would /sys/kernel/net be a little better? or /sys/kernel/sunrpc ?
>
> Do you have a plan to integrate support for fs_locations to probe
> servers for alternate IP addresses? Would that be a userspace
> utility that would plug values into this new /sys API?
We already have dns resolution for fs_locations, right? Why can't we
use that here? Is it that the mount call doesn't give us a host name?
Or we don't trust dns to have the updated IP address for some reason?
--b.
>
>
> > Anna
> >
> >
> > Anna Schumaker (7):
> > net: Add a /sys/net directory to sysfs
> > sunrpc: Create a sunrpc directory under /sys/net/
> > sunrpc: Create a net/ subdirectory in the sunrpc sysfs
> > sunrpc: Create per-rpc_clnt sysfs kobjects
> > sunrpc: Create a per-rpc_clnt file for managing the IP address
> > sunrpc: Prepare xs_connect() for taking NULL tasks
> > sunrpc: Connect to a new IP address provided by the user
> >
> > include/linux/sunrpc/clnt.h | 1 +
> > include/net/sock.h | 4 +
> > net/socket.c | 8 ++
> > net/sunrpc/Makefile | 2 +-
> > net/sunrpc/clnt.c | 5 ++
> > net/sunrpc/sunrpc_syms.c | 8 ++
> > net/sunrpc/sysfs.c | 160 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > net/sunrpc/sysfs.h | 22 +++++
> > net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c | 3 +-
> > 9 files changed, 211 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > create mode 100644 net/sunrpc/sysfs.c
> > create mode 100644 net/sunrpc/sysfs.h
> >
> > --
> > 2.29.2
> >
>
> --
> Chuck Lever
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-12 17:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-11 21:41 [RFC PATCH 0/7] SUNRPC: Create sysfs files for changing IP schumaker.anna
2021-01-11 21:41 ` [RFC PATCH 1/7] net: Add a /sys/net directory to sysfs schumaker.anna
2021-01-11 21:41 ` [RFC PATCH 2/7] sunrpc: Create a sunrpc directory under /sys/net/ schumaker.anna
2021-01-11 21:41 ` [RFC PATCH 3/7] sunrpc: Create a net/ subdirectory in the sunrpc sysfs schumaker.anna
2021-01-11 21:41 ` [RFC PATCH 4/7] sunrpc: Create per-rpc_clnt sysfs kobjects schumaker.anna
2021-01-11 21:41 ` [RFC PATCH 5/7] sunrpc: Create a per-rpc_clnt file for managing the IP address schumaker.anna
2021-01-11 21:41 ` [RFC PATCH 6/7] sunrpc: Prepare xs_connect() for taking NULL tasks schumaker.anna
2021-01-11 21:41 ` [RFC PATCH 7/7] sunrpc: Connect to a new IP address provided by the user schumaker.anna
2021-01-12 13:09 ` [RFC PATCH 0/7] SUNRPC: Create sysfs files for changing IP Chuck Lever
2021-01-12 16:59 ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2021-01-13 19:23 ` Anna Schumaker
2021-01-13 19:48 ` Chuck Lever
2021-01-13 21:23 ` Chuck Lever
2021-01-14 20:29 ` Olga Kornievskaia
2021-01-19 15:55 ` Chuck Lever
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