Re: NFS client virtualization plan

[Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>]

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16.08.2011 15:00, Stanislav Kinsbursky пишет:
> Hello.
> I'm going to virtualize NFS in mainline and here is my plan for NFS client part.
> Any suggestions or criticism are welcome.
>
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>
> "NFS client" virtualization plan:
>
> _RPC layer_:
>
> 1) Make rpcbind clients (rpcb_local_clnt and rpcb_local4_clnt) to be
> per net namespace.
>
> _NFS layer_:
>
> 1) Net namespace inheritance (current->nsproxy->net have to be used instead
> of init_net).
> Pointer to net namespace can be stored on nfs_client structure, which will
> give easy access to proper net namespace during RPC transports creation.
>
> 2) Make Lockd kthread able to handle requests from different net namespaces.
>
> 3) Make NFS callbacks kthreads (nfs4_callback_svc and nfs4.1_callback_svc) able
> to handle requests from different net namespaces.
>
> 4) Make NFS info lists (nfs_volume_list and nfs_client_list) to be per
> net namespace in addition to global ones.
>
> 5) Make NFS proc variables and it's internal content variables to be per
> net namespace in addition to global ones.
>
> 6) Make NFS sysctl variables and it's internal content variables to be per
> net namespace in addition to global ones.
>
>
>


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Best regards,
Stanislav Kinsbursky