On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:41:43PM -0500, Tom Tucker wrote: > Hi Bruce, > > What does RDMA Non Support mean exactly? Maybe I could help if it's > a resource issue? My notes are here: http://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/Server_4.0_and_4.1_issues#Clarify_RDMA_non-support Feel free to edit that. (That also includes a pointer to some notes you made on 4.1 and RDMA, though mainly focusing on the client side.) Initially my minimal goal is just to make sure that the NFSv4.1 server errors out cleanly at the start when a client attempts to use RDMA. --b. > > Thanks, > Tom > > On 10/25/11 7:34 AM, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > >On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 08:19:24AM -0400, bfields wrote: > >> - Progress on the basic 4.1 todo's. Thanks in particular to Mi > >> Jinlong for (among other things) implementing the somewhat > >> tricky DRC limit checking. > >> > >> The 4.1 code is getting closer--it *might* be possible to > >> finish basic 4.1 early as 3.3, at which point we could start > >> on optional features (like pNFS). But that will depend on > >> people sending patches (and pynfs tests) for the remaining 4.1 > >> todo's. > >I've been keeping the todo list up to date here: > > > > http://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/Server_4.0_and_4.1_issues > > > >Some of them I think are relatively straightforward--probably anyone > >with a little time could dive into them: > > > > - SEQ4_STATUS_RECALLABLE_STATE_REVOKED > > > > - backchannel attribute negotiation > > > > - ACL retention bits > > > > - Clarify RDMA non-support > > > >Slightly trickier or open-ended; we may need to talk over design first > >before diving in: > > > > - Make DESTROY_SESSION wait on in-progress requests > > > > - current stateid > > > > - Check 4.0/4.1 interactions > > > > - Callback failure handling > > > > - GSS > > > >The GSS piece is probably the one I'm most worried about. What we have > >seems sufficient for current clients, but I know it's incomplete, and > >I'm not entirely clear how much work it is to implement the minimum > >required to ensure that future kerberos-using clients won't break > >unexpectedly on upgrade to 4.1. > > > >--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 > -- 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
