From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH] in-core AFS multiplexor and PAG support Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 21:23:35 +0100 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030513212335.A9213@infradead.org> References: <20030513170317.A29503@infradead.org> <8848.1052842356@warthog.warthog> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Christoph Hellwig , David Howells , torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, openafs-devel@openafs.org Return-path: Received: from phoenix.mvhi.com ([195.224.96.167]:37131 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262310AbTEMUKw (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2003 16:10:52 -0400 To: David Howells Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8848.1052842356@warthog.warthog>; from dhowells@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com on Tue, May 13, 2003 at 05:12:36PM +0100 List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 05:12:36PM +0100, David Howells wrote: > At what level? There're two levels of mux... > > (1) four syscalls > > (2) 30-ish pioctls, 40-ish control functions and 20-ish ICL functions. > > If I go for (2) as I think you're suggesting, that's on the order of at least > 90 new syscalls, probably more when Arla's additions are included... As a first patch two pag syscalls. After that please post an implementation for every additional syscall you need to this list (or groups thereof) after you moved most to an afsctl fs. > > and do you really think this is a 2.6 thing? > > Yes. Care to explain why?