From: Trond Myklebust Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9] SUNRPC: Store formatted addresses in private data structure Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:59:41 -0400 Message-ID: <1161205181.6095.153.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> References: <20061012211247.8734.23147.stgit@ingres.dsl.sfldmi.ameritech.net> <20061012211521.8734.29674.stgit@ingres.dsl.sfldmi.ameritech.net> <1161203761.6095.137.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <76bd70e30610181341i1da2eeadw70e5098f9f421973@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.91] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2-new.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GaIW9-0006cx-0u for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:00:01 -0700 Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.10.4] ident=7411) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.44) id 1GaIW4-0005bQ-0q for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:00:02 -0700 To: Chuck Lever In-Reply-To: <76bd70e30610181341i1da2eeadw70e5098f9f421973@mail.gmail.com> List-Id: "Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 16:41 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote: > On 10/18/06, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 17:15 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote: > > > Hide buffers that store formatted IP addresses in a private data structure > > > maintained in net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c. > > > > Why? Aren't those generic? > > Not necessarily. A transport may choose to use a dynamic algorithm to > generate the addresses, for example; in which case, it would have no > need for such buffers. Do we have such a user today, or do we expect to have one in the near future? AFAIK the infiniband folks will be using standard IP addresses too. Trond ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs