Re: [PATCH 08/13] RFC: pnfs: filelayout: introduce minimal file layout driver

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On 2010-09-11 01:37, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 14:11 -0700, Fred Isaman wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Trond Myklebust
>> <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 14:00 -0400, Fred Isaman wrote:
>> OK
>>
>>>> +     .initialize_mountpoint   = filelayout_initialize_mountpoint,
>>>> +     .uninitialize_mountpoint = filelayout_uninitialize_mountpoint,
>>>> +};
>>>> +
>>>> +
>>>> +struct pnfs_layoutdriver_type filelayout_type = {
>>>
>>> Ditto.
>>
>> This includes a list_head field which is set by the generic layer.
>>
>>>
>>>> +     .id = LAYOUT_NFSV4_1_FILES,
>>>> +     .name = "LAYOUT_NFSV4_1_FILES",
>>>> +     .ld_io_ops = &filelayout_io_operations,
>>>
>>> Why do we need a separate 'struct layoutdriver_io_operations'? Any
>>> reason those can't just be embedded in struct pnfs_layoutdriver_type?
>>
>> I believe this decision was primarily aesthetics.  However, keeping
>> the static io_ops seperate from the variable list_head seems like a
>> good idea.
> 
> I dunno. They are in a 1-1 correspondence, so I'm not sure I see the
> need for a separation.
> 

Later in the game we introduce the layout driver policy ops.
That said, they could be added to the same vector as the io ops.

>> Perhaps having a driver structure that includes the io_ops and static
>> portions of pnfs_layoutdriver_type, with the generic layer allocating
>> a wrapper structure that is basically:
>> struct {
>>     struct list_head list;
>>     struct pnfs_layoutdriver_type *driver_info;
> 
>       Should be const...
> 
>       struct module *owner = THIS_MODULE;
> 
>> }
> 
> ...although the struct module could probably indeed be part of
> pnfs_layoutdriver_type too.

Agreed.
I think we should just have

struct pnfs_layoutdriver_type {
	struct list_head pnfs_tblid;
	const u32 id;
	const char *name;
	const struct module *owner;
	const struct layoutdriver_operations *ld_ops;
 };

Benny

> 
> Cheers
>   Trond
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