From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "J. Bruce Fields" Subject: Re: Linux pNFS status meeting 07/08 Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 13:45:58 -0400 Message-ID: <20100708174558.GE19375@fieldses.org> References: <20100708154802.GB19375@fieldses.org> <20100708160637.GC19375@fieldses.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Marc Eshel , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org To: sfaibish Return-path: Received: from fieldses.org ([174.143.236.118]:40824 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756709Ab0GHRqH (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jul 2010 13:46:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100708160637.GC19375@fieldses.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Also I'd like to hand off running and taking notes on this meeting to someone else for a while. (Benny, maybe?) Or we can go back to making the meeting more informal if that's preferred. --b. 1. upstream status/merge plans (trond, bfields) - upstream at 2.6.35-rc4. - server side: some bugfixes merged to callback code; allocation failures changed to return DELAY. - discussion of error return on client callback-parsing error. - trond: everything from before bakeathon is in nfs-2.6.36 branch or upstream. Also some file locking bugfixes (bugzilla.kernel.org #14501). Also sending release_lockowner more often to keep server resources down. 2. State of pNFS tree (bhalevy) - working on patches from boaz and andy for release branch. Anyone else have big pending patchsets? - Jim is getting complex-volume block patches tested, will send them out soon. - Fred has some pending stuff ("minor cleanup") - next week would like to start cleaning up and squashing together patches. Also will truncate some of the history. 3. Client 3.1. Client pNFS status - Andy needs to look at state reclaim stuff? - Andy still wondering what to do with the nfs inode layout pointer. What's the lifetime of the thing that points to? 3.2. Client state management design documentation (trond) - Also, on docs: Andy will check that wiki docs are uptodate. And will do some more documentation of refcnts, as will Fred. 4. Server 4.1. Todo's for minimal 4.1 server (bfields) - still working on callback changes. Trond notes ongoing rpc code improvements may allow us to do much of this by keeping a single client and modifying its transports, in which case I may be able to replace my callbacks with single rpc tasks. - also fixing 4.0/4.1 bug that prevents exclusive locks on upgraded open. 4.2. pnfs - pnfs/gfs2 - I'll ask Eric for a report on gfs2 bakeathon testing. - exofs - I'll ask Brian about citi exofs setup status. 5. boston bakeathon - October 4-8. - Details are finalized, to be posted soon. - If your company will be bringing large equipment, let Sorin know. - If anyone would be interested in sponsoring a reception or other addition to the bakeathon, contact Sorin. (Or if you know who at your company would handle such a thing, let Sorin know.) 6. new business - Sorin asked Trond for summary of layout-commit discussion. Discussion ensued. 7. next meeting - next week as usual.