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From: Greg Banks <gnb@sgi.com>
To: Tom Tucker <tom@opengridcomputing.com>
Cc: neilb@suse.de, bfields@fieldses.org, nfs@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH 05/35] svc: Move sk_sendto and sk_recvfrom to svc_xprt_class
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 21:13:25 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071003111325.GO21388@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1191342596.1565.11.camel@trinity.ogc.int>

On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 11:29:56AM -0500, Tom Tucker wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 11:04 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> > On Oct 1, 2007, at 3:27 PM, Tom Tucker wrote:
> > Again, here you have copied a pointer from the class structure to the  
> > instance structure -- the address of the transport ops structure  
> > never changes during the lifetime of the xprt instance, does it?  You  
> > could just as easily use the class's ops pointer instead.
> > 
> > It looks like on the client side, I didn't put the ops vector or the  
> > payload maximum in the class structure at all... 6 of one, half dozen  
> > of the other.  Using the class's value of the ops and payload maximum  
> > would save some space in the svc_xprt, though, come to think of it.
> > 
> 
> cache thing again. let's see how Greg weighs in.

What Chuck said.

> > Also, to address Neil's concern about the appearance of the  
> > expression which dereferences these methods, why not use a macro,  
> > similar to VOP_GETATTR() in the old BSD kernels, that replaces this  
> > long chain of indirections with a simple to recognize macro call?
> > 
> 
> The chain is disgusting until everything gets normalized to an svc_xprt
> in later patches. Take a look at the final result and see if you still
> think a macro helps vs. just obscures.

I agree with Tom here, the final result is less sickening
than some of the intermediate stages.  Like sausage.

Greg.
-- 
Greg Banks, R&D Software Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group.
Apparently, I'm Bedevere.  Which MPHG character are you?
I don't speak for SGI.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-03 11:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 103+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-01 19:14 [RFC,PATCH 00/35] SVC Transport Switch Tom Tucker
2007-10-01 19:27 ` [RFC,PATCH 01/35] svc: Add an svc transport class Tom Tucker
2007-10-01 19:27 ` [RFC,PATCH 02/35] svc: Make svc_sock the tcp/udp transport Tom Tucker
2007-10-01 19:27 ` [RFC, PATCH 03/35] svc: Change the svc_sock in the rqstp structure to a transport Tom Tucker
2007-10-01 19:27 ` [RFC, PATCH 04/35] svc: Add a max payload value to the transport Tom Tucker
2007-10-02 14:54   ` Chuck Lever
2007-10-02 16:28     ` Tom Tucker
2007-10-03 11:09       ` Greg Banks
2007-10-03 14:26         ` Tom Tucker
2007-10-03 15:18           ` Chuck Lever
2007-10-04  1:10           ` Greg Banks
2007-10-01 19:27 ` [RFC, PATCH 05/35] svc: Move sk_sendto and sk_recvfrom to svc_xprt_class Tom Tucker
2007-10-02 15:04   ` Chuck Lever
2007-10-02 16:29     ` Tom Tucker
2007-10-02 16:57       ` Chuck Lever
2007-10-02 18:24         ` Tom Tucker
2007-10-02 18:30           ` Tom Tucker
2007-10-02 18:47             ` Chuck Lever
2007-10-02 19:55               ` Tom Tucker
2007-10-02 20:29                 ` Chuck Lever
2007-10-02 20:35                   ` Tom Tucker
2007-10-02 20:38                     ` Tom Tucker
2007-10-04  1:34                 ` Greg Banks
2007-10-04  1:21             ` Greg Banks
2007-10-03 11:13       ` Greg Banks [this message]
2007-10-01 19:27 ` [RFC, PATCH 06/35] svc: Add transport specific xpo_release function Tom Tucker
2007-10-02 15:18   ` Chuck Lever
2007-10-02 16:35     ` Tom Tucker
2007-10-04  1:48     ` Greg Banks
2007-10-01 19:27 ` [RFC,PATCH 07/35] svc: Add per-transport delete functions Tom Tucker
2007-10-01 19:27 ` [RFC,PATCH 08/35] svc: Add xpo_prep_reply_hdr Tom Tucker
2007-10-01 19:27 ` [RFC, PATCH 09/35] svc: Add a transport function that checks for write space Tom Tucker
2007-10-01 19:27 ` [RFC, PATCH 10/35] svc: Move close processing to a single place Tom Tucker
2007-10-01 19:27 ` [RFC,PATCH 11/35] svc: Add xpo_accept transport function Tom Tucker
2007-10-02 15:33   ` Chuck Lever
2007-10-02 16:41     ` Tom Tucker
2007-10-02 17:07       ` Chuck Lever
2007-10-02 18:28         ` Tom Tucker
2007-10-02 18:49           ` Chuck Lever
2007-10-04  1:54           ` Greg Banks
2007-10-01 19:27 ` [RFC, PATCH 12/35] svc: Add a generic transport svc_create_xprt function Tom Tucker
2007-10-02 15:39   ` Chuck Lever
2007-10-03 20:01     ` Tom Tucker
2007-10-03 20:04       ` Tom Tucker
2007-10-04  2:30     ` Greg Banks
2007-10-04 15:18       ` Chuck Lever
2007-10-01 19:27 ` [RFC, PATCH 13/35] svc: Change services to use new svc_create_xprt service Tom Tucker
2007-10-02 15:44   ` Chuck Lever
2007-10-02 16:45     ` Tom Tucker
2007-10-03 15:25       ` Chuck Lever
2007-10-03 16:23         ` Tom Tucker
2007-10-04  2:35     ` Greg Banks
2007-10-04 14:27       ` Tom Tucker
2007-10-09 17:09   ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-10-09 18:32     ` Tom Tucker
2007-10-09 19:49       ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-10-09 20:19       ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-10-01 19:28 ` [RFC,PATCH 14/35] svc: Change sk_inuse to a kref Tom Tucker
2007-10-03 11:12   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-10-03 14:39     ` Tom Tucker
2007-10-03 14:45     ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-10-03 14:52       ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-10-03 15:11         ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-10-03 15:15           ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-10-08  3:52             ` Neil Brown
2007-10-03 15:13         ` Chuck Lever
2007-10-03 15:34           ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-10-04  2:51             ` Greg Banks
2007-10-01 19:28 ` [RFC, PATCH 15/35] svc: Move sk_flags to the svc_xprt structure Tom Tucker
2007-10-01 19:28 ` [RFC, PATCH 16/35] svc: Move sk_server and sk_pool to svc_xprt Tom Tucker
2007-10-01 19:28 ` [RFC,PATCH 17/35] svc: Make close transport independent Tom Tucker
2007-10-01 19:28 ` [RFC,PATCH 18/35] svc: Move sk_reserved to svc_xprt Tom Tucker
2007-10-01 19:28 ` [RFC, PATCH 19/35] svc: Make the enqueue service transport neutral and export it Tom Tucker
2007-10-01 19:28 ` [RFC,PATCH 20/35] svc: Make svc_send transport neutral Tom Tucker
2007-10-02 16:15   ` Chuck Lever
2007-10-02 16:46     ` Tom Tucker
2007-10-02 16:54       ` Chuck Lever
2007-10-04  2:59         ` Greg Banks
2007-10-01 19:28 ` [RFC, PATCH 21/35] svc: Change svc_sock_received to svc_xprt_received and export it Tom Tucker
2007-10-02 16:18   ` Chuck Lever
2007-10-01 19:28 ` [RFC,PATCH 22/35] svc: Remove sk_lastrecv Tom Tucker
2007-10-01 19:28 ` [RFC,PATCH 23/35] svc: Move the authinfo cache to svc_xprt Tom Tucker
2007-10-01 19:28 ` [RFC, PATCH 24/35] svc: Make deferral processing xprt independent Tom Tucker
2007-10-01 19:28 ` [RFC, PATCH 25/35] svc: Move the sockaddr information to svc_xprt Tom Tucker
2007-10-02 16:34   ` Chuck Lever
2007-10-02 16:50     ` Tom Tucker
2007-10-01 19:28 ` [RFC, PATCH 26/35] svc: Make svc_sock_release svc_xprt_release Tom Tucker
2007-10-01 19:28 ` [RFC,PATCH 27/35] svc: Make svc_recv transport neutral Tom Tucker
2007-10-02 16:36   ` Chuck Lever
2007-10-01 19:28 ` [RFC, PATCH 28/35] svc: Make svc_age_temp_sockets svc_age_temp_transports Tom Tucker
2007-10-01 19:28 ` [RFC, PATCH 29/35] svc: Move common create logic to common code Tom Tucker
2007-10-02 16:42   ` Chuck Lever
2007-10-02 16:51     ` Tom Tucker
2007-10-01 19:28 ` [RFC, PATCH 30/35] svc: Removing remaining references to rq_sock in rqstp Tom Tucker
2007-10-01 19:28 ` [RFC, PATCH 31/35] svc: Make svc_check_conn_limits xprt independent Tom Tucker
2007-10-01 19:28 ` [RFC, PATCH 32/35] svc: Move the xprt independent code to the svc_xprt.c file Tom Tucker
2007-10-01 19:28 ` [RFC, PATCH 33/35] svc: Add transport hdr size for defer/revisit Tom Tucker
2007-10-01 19:28 ` [RFC,PATCH 34/35] svc: Add /proc/sys/sunrpc/transport files Tom Tucker
2007-10-01 19:28 ` [RFC, PATCH 35/35] knfsd: Support adding transports by writing portlist file Tom Tucker
2007-10-02 15:25 ` [RFC,PATCH 00/35] SVC Transport Switch J. Bruce Fields
2007-10-02 16:18   ` Tom Tucker
2007-10-03 11:03 ` Greg Banks
2007-10-03 14:02   ` Tom Tucker

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