[Devel] Re: [PATCH 0/6] SUNRPC: make RPC clients use network-namespace-aware PipeFS routines

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 02:51:10PM +0300, Stanislav Kinsbursky wrote:
> This patch set was created in context of clone of git
> branch: git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6.git.
> tag: v3.1
> 
> This patch set depends on previous patch sets titled:
> 1) "SUNRPC: initial part of making pipefs work in net ns"
> 2) "SUNPRC: cleanup PipeFS for network-namespace-aware users"
> 
> This patch set is a first part of reworking SUNPRC PipeFS users.
> It makes SUNRPC clients using PipeFS nofitications for directory and GSS pipes
> dentries creation. With this patch set RPC clients and GSS auth creations
> routines doesn't force SUNRPC PipeFS mount point creation which actually means,
> that they now can work without PipeFS dentries.

I'm not following very well.  (My fault, I haven't been paying
attention.)  Could you summarize the itended behavior of pipefs after
all this is done?

So there's a separate superblock (and separate dentries) for each
namespace?

What decides which clients are visible in which network namespaces?

--b.

> 
> The following series consists of:
> 
> ---
> 
> Stanislav Kinsbursky (6):
>       SUNRPC: handle RPC client pipefs dentries by network namespace aware routines
>       SUNRPC: handle GSS AUTH pipes by network namespace aware routines
>       SUNRPC: subscribe RPC clients to pipefs notifications
>       SUNRPC: remove RPC client pipefs dentries after unregister
>       SUNRPC: remove RPC pipefs mount point manipulations from RPC clients code
>       SUNRPC: remove RPC PipeFS mount point reference from RPC client
> 
> 
>  fs/nfs/idmap.c                 |    4 +
>  fs/nfsd/nfs4callback.c         |    2 -
>  include/linux/nfs.h            |    2 -
>  include/linux/sunrpc/auth.h    |    2 +
>  include/linux/sunrpc/clnt.h    |    2 -
>  net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c |  101 +++++++++++++++++++++------
>  net/sunrpc/clnt.c              |  151 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>  net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c          |   19 +++--
>  net/sunrpc/sunrpc.h            |    2 +
>  9 files changed, 218 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-)
> 
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