From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Subject: Re: cel's patches for 2.6.18 kernels
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:16:46 -0400
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On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 16:53 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> On 9/20/06, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> > What's the merge plan for those patches?  The transport switch and ipv6
> > code is eagerly anticipated by many people.
> 
> About two thirds of the RPC transport switch is already in.
> Twenty-ish more patches are going in 2.6.19.  There remain roughly 30
> more patches that I need to walk through with Trond, and we can
> probably get those into 2.6.20.  I wouldn't mind moving them up, but
> that's up to Trond.
> 
> The IPv6 stuff is still being finished.  Olaf may be able to help with
> the NLM parts; Bull is still working through the NFS server parts; I'm
> trying to act as integrator.  I would like to line up some testers.  I
> think those may be as far out as three or four releases, but progress
> is occurring -- note there are a lot more IPv6 patches in this
> patchset than there were in 2.6.17's.

What are the prospects for the server side?

> Elimination of the BKL is complete except for a few unimportant spots.
>  All it needs is thorough testing on a multi-way ppc64 system to
> reveal niggling problems.

...and a thorough review of the code.

> The RPC slot table patches are completely rewritten in this release.
> That will probably need some testing and review.

Could you remind me again why we are so keen to get rid of the RPC slot
table?

Cheers,
  Trond


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