From: Trond Myklebust Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] sunrpc: reduce timeout when unregistering rpcbind registrations. Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:22:52 -0400 Message-ID: <1246897372.11267.6.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> References: <20090528062730.15937.70579.stgit@notabene.brown> <20090528063303.15937.62423.stgit@notabene.brown> <18992.35996.986951.556723@notabene.brown> <4A51F125.5080709@suse.de> <4A52217E.9050207@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Chuck Lever , Neil Brown , Linux NFS mailing list To: Suresh Jayaraman Return-path: Received: from mx2.netapp.com ([216.240.18.37]:53954 "EHLO mx2.netapp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753442AbZGFQXR (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jul 2009 12:23:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4A52217E.9050207@suse.de> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 21:38 +0530, Suresh Jayaraman wrote: > BTW, it seems my questions on using RPC_CLNT_CREATE_ flag and using > AF_LOCAL sockets got overshadowed (seen below) by the patch. Would > making rpcbind using AF_LOCAL sockets a good idea or connected UDP still > seems a better solution? The kernel RPC client doesn't support AF_LOCAL sockets. Why would we want to add them when we already have other mechanisms to communicate with userland that provide the same functionality? Trond -- Trond Myklebust Linux NFS client maintainer NetApp Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com www.netapp.com