From: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@xxxxxxxxxx> It's possible for an NFS server to go down but come back up with a different IP address. These patches provide a way for administrators to handle this issue by providing a new IP address for xprt sockets to connect to. Chuck has suggested some ideas for future work that could also use this interface, such as: - srcaddr: To move between network devices on the client - type: "tcp", "rdma", "local" - bound: 0 for autobind, or the result of the most recent rpcbind query - connected: either true or false - last: read-only timestamp of the last operation to use the transport - device: A symlink to the physical network device Changes in v2: - Put files under /sys/kernel/sunrpc/ instead of /sys/net/sunrpc/ - Rename file from "address" to "dstaddr" Thoughts? Anna Anna Schumaker (5): sunrpc: Create a sunrpc directory under /sys/kernel/ sunrpc: Create a net/ subdirectory in the sunrpc sysfs sunrpc: Create per-rpc_clnt sysfs kobjects sunrpc: Prepare xs_connect() for taking NULL tasks sunrpc: Create a per-rpc_clnt file for managing the destination IP address include/linux/sunrpc/clnt.h | 1 + net/sunrpc/Makefile | 2 +- net/sunrpc/clnt.c | 5 ++ net/sunrpc/sunrpc_syms.c | 8 ++ net/sunrpc/sysfs.c | 168 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ net/sunrpc/sysfs.h | 22 +++++ net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c | 3 +- 7 files changed, 207 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100644 net/sunrpc/sysfs.c create mode 100644 net/sunrpc/sysfs.h -- 2.29.2