Re: [PATCH] nfs: add nfs IPv6 rdma6 mount option support

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> On Mar 22, 2016, at 5:55 PM, Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 5:52 PM, Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Mar 22, 2016, at 5:46 PM, Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 5:24 PM, Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Mar 22, 2016, at 3:38 PM, Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Shirley,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sorry for the delay in looking at this patch.  Comments are below:
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 03/16/2016 02:30 PM, Shirley Ma wrote:
>>>>>> Add rdma6 option to support NFS/RDMA IPv6.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Shirley Ma <shirley.ma@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> 
>>>>> Can you add a little more to the patch description to describe when RDMA with IPv6 would be used?
>>>>> 
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> diff --git a/fs/nfs/super.c b/fs/nfs/super.c
>>>>>> index f126828..62a55d0 100644
>>>>>> --- a/fs/nfs/super.c
>>>>>> +++ b/fs/nfs/super.c
>>>>>> @@ -191,6 +191,7 @@ static const match_table_t nfs_mount_option_tokens = {
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> enum {
>>>>>>    Opt_xprt_udp, Opt_xprt_udp6, Opt_xprt_tcp, Opt_xprt_tcp6, Opt_xprt_rdma,
>>>>>> +    Opt_xprt_rdma6,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>    Opt_xprt_err
>>>>>> };
>>>>>> @@ -201,6 +202,7 @@ static const match_table_t nfs_xprt_protocol_tokens = {
>>>>>>    { Opt_xprt_tcp, "tcp" },
>>>>>>    { Opt_xprt_tcp6, "tcp6" },
>>>>>>    { Opt_xprt_rdma, "rdma" },
>>>>>> +    { Opt_xprt_rdma6, "rdma6" },
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>    { Opt_xprt_err, NULL }
>>>>>> };
>>>>>> @@ -1456,6 +1458,8 @@ static int nfs_parse_mount_options(char *raw,
>>>>>>                            mnt->flags |= NFS_MOUNT_TCP;
>>>>>>                            mnt->nfs_server.protocol = XPRT_TRANSPORT_TCP;
>>>>>>                            break;
>>>>>> +                    case Opt_xprt_rdma6:
>>>>>> +                            protofamily = AF_INET6;
>>>>>>                    case Opt_xprt_rdma:
>>>>>>                            /* vector side protocols to TCP */
>>>>>>                            mnt->flags |= NFS_MOUNT_TCP;
>>>>>> @@ -1490,6 +1494,8 @@ static int nfs_parse_mount_options(char *raw,
>>>>>>                    case Opt_xprt_tcp:
>>>>>>                            mnt->mount_server.protocol = XPRT_TRANSPORT_TCP;
>>>>>>                            break;
>>>>>> +                    case Opt_xprt_rdma6:
>>>>>> +                            mountfamily = AF_INET6;
>>>>>>                    case Opt_xprt_rdma: /* not used for side protocols */
>>>>>                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>>> Do we need to be setting mountfamily here?  The comment next to Opt_xprt_rdma makes it sound like this code doesn't apply to RDMA.
>>>> 
>>>> I wondered this too.
>>>> 
>>>> But what's going on is that for NFSv3 on RDMA, when IPv6 is
>>>> used for the main protocol, IPv6 needs to be used for the
>>>> mount protocol as well, even though it is going over TCP.
>>> 
>>> It causes nfs_mount_parse_options to immediately stop further parsing
>>> and return '0' == error encountered. The mount is supposed to fail in
>>> that case.
>> 
>> Ah, a break; is needed there too.
>> 
> 
> I'm saying that makes no sense to allow "rdma6" here in the first
> place, since we've already banned the use of "rdma" through that same
> mechanism.

I see, this is the parsing logic just for "mountproto=".

This hunk should be dropped, and maybe the
"case Opt_xprt_rdma:" can be removed, too.


--
Chuck Lever



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