Just for sh*ts and giggles, I threw together a partial implementation of RPC over AF_LOCAL sockets, and taught the kernel rpcbind client to use it for registering in-kernel RPC services. It's still a little rough around the edges. Any thoughts? --- Chuck Lever (4): SUNRPC: Use AF_LOCAL for rpcbind upcalls SUNRPC: Support for RPC over AF_LOCAL transports SUNRPC: Rename xs_encode_tcp_fragment_header() SUNRPC: Clean up use of curly braces in switch cases include/linux/sunrpc/msg_prot.h | 1 include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h | 3 net/sunrpc/clnt.c | 25 +- net/sunrpc/rpcb_clnt.c | 97 ++++++++- net/sunrpc/svc.c | 2 net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c | 417 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 6 files changed, 506 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-) -- Chuck Lever -- 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