From: Trond Myklebust Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/30] What's in the NFS queue for 2.6.27 Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:37:50 -0400 Message-ID: <1223494670.16460.2.camel@localhost> References: <20081007221952.20945.69529.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20081008193114.GA12386@fieldses.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org To: "J. Bruce Fields" Return-path: Received: from mx2.netapp.com ([216.240.18.37]:46953 "EHLO mx2.netapp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754876AbYJHTiu (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2008 15:38:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20081008193114.GA12386@fieldses.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 15:31 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 06:19:52PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > Most of the following patches are bugfixes: > > There are a couple of spin locking fixes to follow up the BKL removal. > > There are some attribute update fixups, mainly to make the spin > > locking more efficient > > A fix for the problem of autobind on cloned RPC clients > > > > The one feature that has been added is the lookup revalidation mount > > option to allow clients to specify that they might not want to cache > > negative dentries, and that they might want strict dentry revalidation. > > The version of the fs_locations fixes are slightly older than my most > recent. Looking back through the archive, I think it may have been my > mistake. Sorry! > > There's a missing patch from Chuck that makes the ip address parsing a > bit more paranoid. I'll resend that, followed by the newer versions of > the other patches. > > Aside from the missing patch from Chuck, the only difference between the > versions you have and my latest are summarized below. it's just: > > - a cosmetic change to set_port to address your complaints about > blocks used just to define local variables, and > - changes to stop bothering to check for scope id's in v6 > addresses. > > So--could you just take the following patches, and throw out the 4 > corresponding patches from me in your current tree? I'll split your patch into 2 and apply on top the existing tree. Trond -- Trond Myklebust Linux NFS client maintainer NetApp Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com www.netapp.com