From: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
To: Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] complex block layout
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:58:27 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C4D3213.9050506@panasas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1279743856.git.rees@umich.edu>
On Jul. 22, 2010, 1:29 +0300, Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu> wrote:
> This is a replacement for the patch set I sent last week, rebased to current
> pnfs-all-latest and incorporating suggestions both from reviewers and from
> checkpatch.pl.
>
> These two patches move the complex block layout device mapping from the
> kernel to a user space daemon. The first patch adds a simple upcall
> mechanism via pipefs for the kernel piece to communicate with the daemon.
> The second patch removes the kernel device mapping and replaces it with
> calls to the daemon.
>
> Passes Connectathon tests to both EMC and spnfs servers.
>
> The user daemon will be sent separately as a patch to nfs-utils.
Jim, I've merged these patches only into the pnfs-block branch,
not pnfs-block-all (part of the pnfs-all-latest chain), until
we get the user mode daemon into pnfs-nfs-utils. Once there.
I'll merge the patches also into pnfs-block-all.
Benny
>
> Haiying Tang (2):
> pnfs-block: Add support for simple rpc pipefs
> pnfs-block: Remove device creation from kernel
>
> fs/nfs/blocklayout/Makefile | 2 +-
> fs/nfs/blocklayout/block-device-discovery-pipe.c | 66 +++
> fs/nfs/blocklayout/blocklayout.c | 15 +-
> fs/nfs/blocklayout/blocklayout.h | 18 +-
> fs/nfs/blocklayout/blocklayoutdev.c | 494 +++-------------------
> fs/nfs/blocklayout/blocklayoutdm.c | 297 ++-----------
> include/linux/sunrpc/rpc_pipe_fs.h | 4 +
> include/linux/sunrpc/simple_rpc_pipefs.h | 111 +++++
> net/sunrpc/Makefile | 2 +-
> net/sunrpc/simple_rpc_pipefs.c | 424 +++++++++++++++++++
> 10 files changed, 721 insertions(+), 712 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 fs/nfs/blocklayout/block-device-discovery-pipe.c
> create mode 100644 include/linux/sunrpc/simple_rpc_pipefs.h
> create mode 100644 net/sunrpc/simple_rpc_pipefs.c
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-26 6:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-21 22:29 [PATCH 0/2] complex block layout Jim Rees
2010-07-21 22:30 ` [PATCH 1/2] pnfs-block: Add support for simple rpc pipefs Jim Rees
2010-07-21 22:30 ` [PATCH 2/2] pnfs-block: Remove device creation from kernel Jim Rees
2010-07-26 6:58 ` Benny Halevy [this message]
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