On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:24:58PM -0400, Chuck Lever wrote: > By the way, here is a pointer to the old work: > > http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=cel/cel-2.6.git;a=shortlog;h=drop-20070423 > > The work in this snapshot is only partially complete. > > There are many many issues to fix up. One of the bigger ones is that > the RPC layer still takes the BKL during XDR encoding and decoding. But > I wanted to create something that could be fully or partially shared by > the client and server implementations, and that would be more rigorous > about static and dynamic type checking. > > In addition, the NFSv4 routines use a new style of managing the RPC > buffer that I wanted to adopt for the other in-kernel XDR routines, then > convert the RPC client to use only the new style when invoking XDR > routines. I never got that far, but I still think it's a reasonable > goal. To find something manageable to start with, what's the minimum first step that that would achieve Benny's goal of replacing those server-side xdr macros? >From a quick glance at the patches: a kerneldoc comment for each xdr encode/decode seems like overkill, since it's mostly boilerplate; could we document those arguments just once with the definition of kxdrproc_t, then refer to that comment as necessary? Anyway, seems like good stuff to me. --b. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
