From: Trond Myklebust Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] sunrpc: reduce timeout when unregistering rpcbind registrations. Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:40:50 -0400 Message-ID: <1246898450.11267.12.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> <4E8F91E6-4E55-44BB-889B-DDB9910129BF@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Suresh Jayaraman , Neil Brown , Linux NFS mailing list To: Chuck Lever Return-path: Received: from mx2.netapp.com ([216.240.18.37]:5271 "EHLO mx2.netapp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751208AbZGFQlm (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jul 2009 12:41:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4E8F91E6-4E55-44BB-889B-DDB9910129BF@oracle.com> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 12:31 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote: > I have considered that. AF_LOCAL in fact could replace all of our > upcall mechanisms. However, portmapper, which doesn't support > AF_LOCAL, is still used in some distributions. As could AF_NETLINK, fork(), pipes, fifos, etc... Again: why would we want to saddle ourselves with rpc over AF_LOCAL? -- Trond Myklebust Linux NFS client maintainer NetApp Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com www.netapp.com