From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick Caulfield Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:05:22 +0000 Subject: [Cluster-devel] [PATCH] [1/2] dlm: make lowcomms selectable by user In-Reply-To: <45BA12D4.9040300@redhat.com> References: <45BA12D4.9040300@redhat.com> Message-ID: <45BA18B2.10306@redhat.com> List-Id: To: cluster-devel.redhat.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Patrick Caulfield wrote: (resend as two patches to see if the mailing list is more amenable) > This patch makes the lowcomms protocol selectable by the user before the DLM is > started rather than having only one available, decided at compile time. > > The best way to do this is to have dlm-controld read ccs and write 0 (TCP) or 1 > (SCTP) into the sysfs file that controls it. > > We will need this when SCTP become a viable protocol for the DLM so that people > can upgrade easily and to give them a sensibly-selectable option without > recompiling the kernel. > > The alternative way of doing this would be to have separate modules for tcp & > sctp...I think this solution is better because it is more reliably controlled > via dlm_controld & ccs and this means that all nodes in the cluster will be > using the same transport. The memory overheads of having both loaded at once are > minimal. > > Dave/Steve: Can you check this is OK with your criterea (eg is it OK for sysfs, > does Kconfig look right!) for committing it please ? > > Signed-Off-By: Patrick Caulfield > -- patrick -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: 0001-Make-lowcomms-run-time-ish-switchable.txt URL: