From: Tom Tucker Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH 25/33] svc: Move the sockaddr information to svc_xprt Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:44:50 -0500 Message-ID: <1190997890.10604.58.camel@trinity.ogc.int> References: <20070927045751.12677.98896.stgit@dell3.ogc.int> <20070927050227.12677.32560.stgit@dell3.ogc.int> <18172.33988.315021.626126@notabene.brown> Reply-To: tom@opengridcomputing.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, gnb@sgi.com To: Neil Brown 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 1IbIyd-0007i2-OF for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:46:07 -0700 Received: from 209-198-142-2-host.prismnet.net ([209.198.142.2] helo=smtp.opengridcomputing.com) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1IbIyg-0006Qw-LD for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:46:12 -0700 In-Reply-To: <18172.33988.315021.626126@notabene.brown> 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 Fri, 2007-09-28 at 14:36 +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > On Thursday September 27, tom@opengridcomputing.com wrote: > > > > Move the IP address fields to the svc_xprt structure. Note that this > > assumes that _all_ RPC transports must have IP based 4-tuples. This > > seems reasonable given the tight coupling with the portmapper etc... > > Thoughts? > > I don't think NFSv4 requires portmapper (or rpcbind) ... does it? > > "Everything uses IP addresses" sounds a lot like "Everything is a > socket". I would have supported the latter strongly until RDMA came > along. Now I'm even less sure about the former. > > How much cost would there be in leaving the address in the > per-transport data? Very little. The original patchset had it in the per-transport data. > > NeilBrown ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs