Re: NFS client virtualization plan

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On Aug 16, 2011, at 7:00 AM, Stanislav Kinsbursky wrote:

> Hello.
> I'm going to virtualize NFS in mainline and here is my plan for NFS client part.
> Any suggestions or criticism are welcome.

What are you going to do about statd?

> ==============================================================================
> 
> "NFS client" virtualization plan:
> 
> _RPC layer_:
> 
> 1) Make rpcbind clients (rpcb_local_clnt and rpcb_local4_clnt) to be
> per net namespace.
> 
> _NFS layer_:
> 
> 1) Net namespace inheritance (current->nsproxy->net have to be used instead
> of init_net).
> Pointer to net namespace can be stored on nfs_client structure, which will
> give easy access to proper net namespace during RPC transports creation.
> 
> 2) Make Lockd kthread able to handle requests from different net namespaces.
> 
> 3) Make NFS callbacks kthreads (nfs4_callback_svc and nfs4.1_callback_svc) able
> to handle requests from different net namespaces.
> 
> 4) Make NFS info lists (nfs_volume_list and nfs_client_list) to be per
> net namespace in addition to global ones.
> 
> 5) Make NFS proc variables and it's internal content variables to be per
> net namespace in addition to global ones.
> 
> 6) Make NFS sysctl variables and it's internal content variables to be per
> net namespace in addition to global ones.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Stanislav Kinsbursky
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