From: Ric Wheeler <ricwheeler@gmail.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>,
trond.myklebust@netapp.com, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/31] NFS XDR clean up for 2.6.38
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:24:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D0A9FB6.7040503@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101216231626.GA24880@infradead.org>
On 12/16/2010 06:16 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 06:14:34PM -0500, Ric Wheeler wrote:
>> This is not us trying to block anything, just do an orderly testing of changes.
>>
>> Why do three "waves" of pNFS related changes and refactor code all at once?
> Because some forces seem to force pnfs into the kernel despite neither
> beeing ready nor overly useful. If you look at the userbase of the
> Linux NFS client a robust XDR encode/decoder without buffer overflows is
> a lot more important than a partially working pNFS client.
I think that the pNFS features are actually quite useful and do have a pull with
the user base. Not to knock the XDR work but I would put it behind the current
churn.
If you look at the number of pNFS commits from the NFS developers, clearly pNFS
is important to many of them (and/or their employers of course :))
Ric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-16 23:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-14 14:54 [PATCH 00/31] NFS XDR clean up for 2.6.38 Chuck Lever
2010-12-14 14:54 ` [PATCH 01/31] NFS: Introduce new-style XDR encoding functions for NFSv2 Chuck Lever
2010-12-14 14:54 ` [PATCH 02/31] NFS: Remove old NFSv2 encoder functions Chuck Lever
2010-12-14 14:54 ` [PATCH 03/31] NFS: Update xdr_encode_foo() functions that we're keeping Chuck Lever
2010-12-14 14:55 ` [PATCH 04/31] NFS: Use the "nfs_stat" enum for nfs_stat_to_errno()'s argument Chuck Lever
2010-12-14 14:55 ` [PATCH 05/31] NFS: Introduce new-style XDR decoding functions for NFSv2 Chuck Lever
2010-12-15 21:48 ` Trond Myklebust
2010-12-15 21:53 ` Trond Myklebust
2010-12-14 14:55 ` [PATCH 06/31] NFS: Replace old NFSv2 decoder functions with xdr_stream-based ones Chuck Lever
2010-12-14 14:55 ` [PATCH 07/31] NFS: Move and update xdr_decode_foo() functions that we're keeping Chuck Lever
2010-12-14 14:55 ` [PATCH 08/31] lockd: Introduce new-style XDR functions for NLMv3 Chuck Lever
2010-12-14 14:55 ` [PATCH 09/31] NFS: Introduce new-style XDR encoding functions for NFSv3 Chuck Lever
2010-12-14 14:56 ` [PATCH 10/31] NFS: Replace old NFSv3 encoder functions with xdr_stream-based ones Chuck Lever
2010-12-14 14:56 ` [PATCH 11/31] NFS: Remove unused old NFSv3 encoder functions Chuck Lever
2010-12-14 14:56 ` [PATCH 12/31] NFS: Update xdr_encode_foo() functions that we're keeping Chuck Lever
2010-12-14 14:56 ` [PATCH 13/31] NFS: Introduce new-style XDR decoding functions for NFSv2 Chuck Lever
2010-12-15 21:49 ` Trond Myklebust
2010-12-16 2:44 ` Chuck Lever
2010-12-14 14:56 ` [PATCH 14/31] NFS: Switch in new NFSv3 decoder functions Chuck Lever
2010-12-14 14:56 ` [PATCH 15/31] NFS: Remove unused old " Chuck Lever
2010-12-14 14:57 ` [PATCH 16/31] NFS: Move and update xdr_decode_foo() functions that we're keeping Chuck Lever
2010-12-14 14:57 ` [PATCH 17/31] lockd: Introduce new-style XDR functions for NLMv4 Chuck Lever
2010-12-14 14:57 ` [PATCH 18/31] NFSD: Update XDR encoders in NFSv4 callback client Chuck Lever
2010-12-14 14:57 ` [PATCH 19/31] NFSD: Update XDR decoders " Chuck Lever
2010-12-14 14:57 ` [PATCH 20/31] NFS: Repair whitespace damage in NFS PROC macro Chuck Lever
2010-12-14 14:57 ` [PATCH 21/31] lockd: Move nlmdbg_cookie2a() to svclock.c Chuck Lever
2010-12-14 14:58 ` [PATCH 22/31] NFS: Fix hdrlen calculation in NFSv4's decode_read() Chuck Lever
2010-12-14 14:58 ` [PATCH 23/31] NFS: Simplify ->decode_dirent() calling sequence Chuck Lever
2010-12-14 14:58 ` [PATCH 24/31] NFS: Squelch compiler warning in decode_getdeviceinfo() Chuck Lever
2010-12-14 14:58 ` [PATCH 25/31] NSM: Avoid return code checking in NSM XDR encoder functions Chuck Lever
2010-12-14 14:58 ` [PATCH 26/31] NFS: Avoid return code checking in mount " Chuck Lever
2010-12-14 14:58 ` [PATCH 27/31] NFS: Remove unused UMNT response data structure Chuck Lever
2010-12-14 14:58 ` [PATCH 28/31] SUNRPC: Avoid return code checking in rpcbind XDR encoder functions Chuck Lever
2010-12-14 14:59 ` [PATCH 29/31] SUNRPC: Determine value of "nrprocs" automatically Chuck Lever
2010-12-14 14:59 ` [PATCH 30/31] SUNRPC: New xdr_streams XDR encoder API Chuck Lever
2010-12-14 14:59 ` [PATCH 31/31] SUNRPC: New xdr_streams XDR decoder API Chuck Lever
2010-12-16 19:14 ` [PATCH 00/31] NFS XDR clean up for 2.6.38 Steve Dickson
2010-12-16 20:04 ` Chuck Lever
2010-12-16 20:21 ` Ric Wheeler
2010-12-16 21:04 ` Chuck Lever
2010-12-16 22:45 ` Ric Wheeler
2010-12-16 20:43 ` Steve Dickson
2010-12-16 23:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-12-16 23:14 ` Ric Wheeler
2010-12-16 23:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-12-16 23:24 ` Ric Wheeler [this message]
2010-12-16 23:30 ` Ric Wheeler
2010-12-16 23:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-12-17 3:32 ` Trond Myklebust
2010-12-17 14:56 ` Steve Dickson
2010-12-17 17:11 ` Chuck Lever
2010-12-17 22:44 ` Ric Wheeler
2010-12-17 12:16 ` Steve Dickson
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