From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mexforward.lss.emc.com ([128.222.32.20]:51516 "EHLO mexforward.lss.emc.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751769Ab0GICgs (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jul 2010 22:36:48 -0400 Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:36:31 -0400 To: "J. Bruce Fields" Subject: Re: Linux pNFS status meeting 07/08 From: sfaibish Cc: "Marc Eshel" , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, "nfsv4 list" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=iso-8859-15 References: <20100708154802.GB19375@fieldses.org> <20100708160637.GC19375@fieldses.org> <20100708174558.GE19375@fieldses.org> Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20100708174558.GE19375@fieldses.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 I posted a preliminary web page announcement for the Fall Bake-a-Thon in Boston on CITI website: http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/citi_bakeathon/15th_nfsv4_bakeathon.html On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:45:58 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > 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. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > -- Best Regards Sorin Faibish Corporate Distinguished Engineer Network Storage Group EMC˛ where information lives Phone: 508-435-1000 x 48545 Cellphone: 617-510-0422 Email : sfaibish@emc.com