I sent an earlier version of this series, got some feed back, revised it, but never sent it again. Sorry. The main feedback was around the interaction between sunrpc and nfsd for handling poolstats. I have changed that so that nfsd tells sunrpc where the svc_serv pointer lives, and where to find a mutex to protect it. sunrpc then taks the mutex and accesses the pointer - if not NULL. I think this is nicer than the version that pass around funciton pointers. This series is against nfsd-next Thanks, NeilBrown [PATCH 1/5] nfsd: call nfsd_last_thread() before final nfsd_put() [PATCH 2/5] svc: don't hold reference for poolstats, only mutex. [PATCH 3/5] nfsd: hold nfsd_mutex across entire netlink operation [PATCH 4/5] SUNRPC: discard sv_refcnt, and svc_get/svc_put [PATCH 5/5] nfsd: rename nfsd_last_thread() to nfsd_destroy_serv()