Re: [PATCH 11/14] nfsd: add user xattr RPC XDR encoding/decoding logic

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On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 01:34:53PM -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Mar 20, 2020, at 12:47 PM, Frank van der Linden <fllinden@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > There definitely seem to be several copy functions in both the client
> > and server code that basically do the same, but in slightly different ways,
> > depending on whether they use an XDR buf or not, whether the pages are
> > mapped or not, etc. Seems like a good candidate for a cleanup, but I
> > considered it to be out of scope for these patches.
> 
> "out of scope" - probably so. Depending on Bruce's thinking, we can
> add this to the list of janitorial tasks.

The rewrite of the server xdr encoding was... oh jeez, six years ago
now, and I haven't really thought about it since.  I remember thinking
we should do the decode side as well someday, though, and thinking it
should be pretty doable.

--b.




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