From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.candelatech.com ([208.74.158.172]:42235 "EHLO ns3.lanforge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758276Ab1FWQFx (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:05:53 -0400 Message-ID: <4E03645C.5080503@candelatech.com> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:05:48 -0700 From: Ben Greear To: Chuck Lever CC: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] NFS: Support binding to source address References: <1308778611-9370-1-git-send-email-greearb@candelatech.com> <4E035BED.3040105@candelatech.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 On 06/23/2011 08:46 AM, Chuck Lever wrote: > Hi Ben- > > On Jun 23, 2011, at 9:29 AM, Ben Greear wrote: > >> On 06/23/2011 07:59 AM, Chuck Lever wrote: >>> >>> On Jun 22, 2011, at 3:36 PM, greearb@candelatech.com wrote: >>> >>>> From: Ben Greear >>>> >>>> This lets one specify the source IP address for >>>> sockets, allowing users to leverage routing rules >>>> on multi-homed systems. >>> >>> Do you need changes to send NLM requests from the right source address? >> >> Not for my testing so far...but maybe I'm not utilizing whatever NLM >> does. What sort of things would require/use it? > > File locking. NLM support should be a requirement for a complete implementation of srcaddr=, IMO. Ok, I think I have some patches for this already, but didn't re-add them when breaking up the big patch for submission. I'll set up a test case with file locking and double-check that I have it working correctly. Thanks, Ben > > -- > Chuck Lever > chuck[dot]lever[at]oracle[dot]com > > -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com