On Nov 11, 2013, at 13:06, Steve Dickson <SteveD@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 09/11/13 18:12, Myklebust, Trond wrote: >> One alternative to the above scheme, which I believe that I’ve >> suggested before, is to have a permanent entry in rpc_pipefs >> that rpc.gssd can open and that the kernel can use to detect >> that it is running. If we make it /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/gssd/clnt00/gssd, >> then AFAICS we don’t need to change nfs-utils at all, since all newer >> versions of rpc.gssd will try to open for read anything of the form >> /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/*/clntXX/gssd... > > After further review I am going going have to disagree with you on this. > Since all the context is cached on the initial mount the kernel What context? > should be using the call_usermodehelper() to call up to rpc.gssd > to get the context, which means we could put this upcall noise > to bed... forever! :-) No. We’re not adding yet another up call. We’ve already got two... -- 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
