From: "J. Bruce Fields" Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/30] What's in the NFS queue for 2.6.27 Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 15:39:51 -0400 Message-ID: <20081008193951.GB12386@fieldses.org> References: <20081007221952.20945.69529.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20081008193114.GA12386@fieldses.org> <1223494670.16460.2.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org To: Trond Myklebust Return-path: Received: from mail.fieldses.org ([66.93.2.214]:34832 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753248AbYJHTjw (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2008 15:39:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1223494670.16460.2.camel@localhost> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 03:37:50PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > 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. That'll work too, thanks; let me know if you'd like me to do that for you. (And note also that patch #1, from Chuck, also needs to be applied.) --b.