linux-kernel - Re: [patch 0/9] extended fdinfo via procfs series, v7

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Date:	Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:23:18 -0400
From:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
To:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	James Bottomley <jbottomley@...allels.com>,
	Matthew Helsley <matt.helsley@...il.com>,
	aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [patch 0/9] extended fdinfo via procfs series, v7

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 02:43:23PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> here is updated version of the fdinfo via procfs series,
> the changes from previous one are the following
> 
>  - fhandle is carried inside inotify mark but this feature
>    is CONFIG dependent to not bloat the kernel for users
>    who don't need it

As Al points out, this doesn't help much: if this feature is something a
distro will want to provide, then in practice all their users are
eventually going to end up with it turned on.

Could you quantify the cost somehow?

I wonder if you could get away with something less than MAX_HANDLE_SIZE?
128 bytes is the maximum allowable by NFSv4.  In practice I don't think
any of our filesystems need more than 40 or so right now.

--b.

> 
>  - a small fix in exportfs code to prevent nil dereference
> 
> the comments would be appreciated.
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