Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753372Ab3JLJ0E (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Oct 2013 05:26:04 -0400 Received: from mail.SerNet.de ([193.175.80.2]:57473 "EHLO mail.SerNet.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752113Ab3JLJ0B (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Oct 2013 05:26:01 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 917 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 05:26:01 EDT Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 11:10:11 +0200 Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 11:10:11 +0200 From: Volker Lendecke To: Frank Filz Cc: "'Jeff Layton'" , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nfs-ganesha-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, samba-technical@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] locks: implement "filp-private" (aka UNPOSIX) locks Reply-To: Volker.Lendecke@SerNet.DE References: <1381494322-2426-1-git-send-email-jlayton@redhat.com> <20131011093510.7ed9871a@tlielax.poochiereds.net> <01f801cec695$7e5d17e0$7b1747a0$@mindspring.com> <20131011115006.697d6bd7@tlielax.poochiereds.net> <020001cec6a4$601b6f70$20524e50$@mindspring.com> <20131011144240.007f96c1@tlielax.poochiereds.net> <020301cec6b3$30aa5d00$91ff1700$@mindspring.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <020301cec6b3$30aa5d00$91ff1700$@mindspring.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Message-Id: Organization: SerNet GmbH, Goettingen, Germany Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1198 Lines: 30 On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 11:53:30AM -0700, Frank Filz wrote: > > I guess my main concern is that while I'm interested in adding interfaces > that > > make it _easier_ to implement fileservers, I'm not terribly interested in > > adding interfaces that are _specific_ to implementing them. > > > > Whatever interface we add needs to be generic enough to be useful to other > > applications as well. The changes you're suggesting sound rather specific > to a > > particular use-case. > > Sure, understood, though the Samba folks may have some input here also > (though at least they have a process per connection still right? So the Yes, correct. With the changes we have to make to support SMB3 Multichannel this might change in the near future tough. Volker -- SerNet GmbH, Bahnhofsallee 1b, 37081 G?ttingen phone: +49-551-370000-0, fax: +49-551-370000-9 AG G?ttingen, HRB 2816, GF: Dr. Johannes Loxen http://www.sernet.de, mailto:kontakt@sernet.de -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/