From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Howells Subject: Re: [PATCH] in-core AFS multiplexor and PAG support Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 17:12:36 +0100 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <8848.1052842356@warthog.warthog> References: <20030513170317.A29503@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.4 - "Hosorogi") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: Received: from pub237.cambridge.redhat.com ([213.86.99.237]:41957 "EHLO warthog.warthog") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261869AbTEMQAC (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2003 12:00:02 -0400 To: Christoph Hellwig , David Howells , torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, openafs-devel@openafs.org In-Reply-To: <20030513170317.A29503@infradead.org> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org > On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 04:39:20PM +0100, David Howells wrote: > > (3) AFS multiplexor support. Not complete at the moment, but implemented > > far enough to provide access to the PAG mechanism. Further patches > > will be forthcoming to make this fully functional. > > This is broken. Please add individual syscalls instead of yet another broken > multiplexer. 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... > and do you really think this is a 2.6 thing? Yes. David