From: Chuck Lever III <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
To: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>,
Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>,
Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo.bianconi@redhat.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
"open list:NETWORKING [GENERAL]" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 3/3] NFSD: add write_ports to netlink command
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 13:55:14 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <917EC07C-C9D9-4CF2-9ACB-DCA2676DFF67@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8fabd83caa0d44369853a4040a89c069f9b0f935.camel@kernel.org>
> On Jan 24, 2024, at 6:24 AM, Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2024-01-24 at 10:52 +0100, Lorenzo Bianconi wrote:
>> [...]
>>>
>>> That's a great question. We do need to properly support the -H option to
>>> rpc.nfsd. What we do today is look up the hostname or address using
>>> getaddrinfo, and then open a listening socket for that address and then
>>> pass that fd down to the kernel, which I think then takes the socket and
>>> sticks it on sv_permsocks.
>>>
>>> All of that seems a bit klunky. Ideally, I'd say the best thing would be
>>> to allow userland to pass the sockaddr we look up directly via netlink,
>>> and then let the kernel open the socket. That will probably mean
>>> refactoring some of the svc_xprt_create machinery to take a sockaddr,
>>> but I don't think it looks too hard to do.
>>
>> Do we already have a specific use case for it? I think we can even add it
>> later when we have a defined use case for it on top of the current series.
>>
>
> Yes:
>
> rpc.nfsd -H makes nfsd listen on a particular address and port. By
> passing down the sockaddr instead of an already-opened socket
> descriptor, we can achieve the goal without having to open sockets in
> userland.
Tearing down a listener that was created that way would be a
use case for:
> Do we ever want/need to remove listening sockets?
> Normal practice when making any changes is to stop and restart where
> "stop" removes all sockets, unexports all filesystems, disables all
> versions.
--
Chuck Lever
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-01-24 13:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-01-20 17:33 [PATCH v6 0/3] convert write_threads, write_version and write_ports to netlink commands Lorenzo Bianconi
2024-01-20 17:33 ` [PATCH v6 1/3] NFSD: convert write_threads to netlink command Lorenzo Bianconi
2024-01-20 17:33 ` [PATCH v6 2/3] NFSD: add write_version " Lorenzo Bianconi
2024-01-22 13:27 ` Jeff Layton
2024-01-20 17:33 ` [PATCH v6 3/3] NFSD: add write_ports " Lorenzo Bianconi
2024-01-22 13:41 ` Jeff Layton
2024-01-22 15:35 ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2024-01-22 15:50 ` Jeff Layton
2024-01-22 15:59 ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2024-01-22 21:35 ` NeilBrown
2024-01-22 21:37 ` Jeff Layton
2024-01-22 22:58 ` Chuck Lever
2024-01-23 9:59 ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2024-01-23 11:17 ` Jeff Layton
2024-01-23 13:21 ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2024-01-23 14:28 ` Jeff Layton
2024-01-24 9:52 ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2024-01-24 11:24 ` Jeff Layton
2024-01-24 13:55 ` Chuck Lever III [this message]
2024-01-24 18:10 ` Jeff Layton
2024-01-25 22:44 ` NeilBrown
2024-01-26 2:38 ` Chuck Lever III
2024-01-26 7:27 ` NeilBrown
2024-01-26 13:58 ` Chuck Lever III
2024-01-22 16:31 ` kernel test robot
2024-01-22 13:49 ` [PATCH v6 0/3] convert write_threads, write_version and write_ports to netlink commands Jeff Layton
2024-01-22 17:01 ` Lorenzo Bianconi
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