netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/4] SUNRPC: pass network namespace context to sockaddr construction routines

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Message-ID: <20111212161542.GH18185@fieldses.org>
Date:	Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:15:42 -0500
From:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
To:	Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@...allels.com>
Cc:	"Trond.Myklebust@...app.com" <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>,
	"linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org" <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>,
	Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	"neilb@...e.de" <neilb@...e.de>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	James Bottomley <jbottomley@...allels.com>,
	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"devel@...nvz.org" <devel@...nvz.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] SUNRPC: pass network namespace context to sockaddr
 construction routines

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 08:13:24PM +0400, Stanislav Kinsbursky wrote:
> 09.12.2011 00:46, J. Bruce Fields пишет:
> >On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 03:20:07PM +0300, Stanislav Kinsbursky wrote:
> >>This is another precursor patch set aimed to remove hard-coded "init_net"
> >>reference from SUNRPC sockaddr convertion and construction routines.
> >
> >ACK--all look straightforward.  (Only complaint would be that this isn't
> >terribly interesting till we see how these are used.)
> >
> 
> Actually, all is simple. These init_net pointers will be replaced
> later by "transports, clients and others" network namespace
> contexts.
> I have some more patches for NFS layer. But I don't see any sense to
> sent them now since no "virtualization" patches were commited yet.
> So, currently, I'm trying to finalize "SUNRPC per network namespace"
> task, and soon I'll send a patch set making SUNRPC sysctl's
> network-namespace-aware. It is a little bit tricky and ugly from my
> pow, so any ideas are welcome.

No ideas.... What's the ugly part?

--b.
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