linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/12] make rpc_pipefs be mountable multiple times

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Date:	Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:43:28 -0500
From:	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>
To:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kas@...nvz.org>
Cc:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] make rpc_pipefs be mountable multiple times

On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 01:32 +0200, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 09:46:44AM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > By the way, was there ever a resolution to Trond's question?:
> > 
> > 	http://marc.info/?l=linux-nfs&m=128655758712817&w=2
> > 
> > 	"The keyring upcalls are currently initiated through the same
> > 	mechanism as module_request and therefore get started with the
> > 	init_nsproxy namespace. We'd really like them to run inside the
> > 	same container as the process.  As part of the same problem,
> > 	there is the issue of what to do with the dns resolver and
> > 	Bryan's new keyring based idmapper code."
> 
> I'm not sure that I understand the problem correctly.
> 
> Currently, idmap uses dentry taken from client's cl_rpcclient->cl_path
> (see nfs_idmap_new()). cl_rpcclient (and cl_path) is initialized with
> rpcmount resolved against mount namespace of mount process (see
> nfs_create_rpc_client()).
> I assume it's correct.

That would be the legacy idmapper mechanism.

Please see CONFIG_NFS_USE_NEW_IDMAPPER, which uses the keyring upcall
mechanism for greater scalability.


Cheers
  Trond
-- 
Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer

NetApp
Trond.Myklebust@...app.com
www.netapp.com

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