From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCH 0/14] A transport switch for knfsd
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 16:53:17 -0400
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Cc: Thomas Talpey <Thomas.Talpey@netapp.com>,
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	Peter Leckie <pleckie@melbourne.sgi.com>
To: Greg Banks <gnb@sgi.com>
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On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 05:18:21AM +1000, Greg Banks wrote:
> These 14 patches are an experimental transport switch for knfsd.
> They're based on Tom Tucker's 01-svc-xprt-switch.patch from the
> nfsrdma project November release, but redesigned to provide as simple
> and clean an abstraction as possible to new transport-specific code.
> Various messy details of flags, reference counts and other behaviour
> which are currently redundantly handled in both TCP and UDP code,
> will be handled in generic code now.  This makes the task of writing
> new transport code easier and less prone to breakage.

Are there other conjectured future users besides rdma?

What's happened to server-side ipv6, by the way?

--b.

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