[pnfs] [PATCH] Removed sessions hard-coded 32678 byte max sizes

[William A. (Andy) Adamson]

On 3/16/07, J. Bruce Fields <bfields at fieldses.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 09:44:35AM -0700, Iyer, Rahul wrote:
> > Btw, isn't largeio part of the mainline now?
>
> Yeah, so there's a decision to make here:
>
> We could update our current code to something more recent.  That would
> have the advantage that we could dump some temporary fixes like that
> bigio patch.  But it would have the disadvantage that it will require
> some tedious fixing up, and may introduce a new bug or two.  Also, it's
> more work sunk into something that (as long as it's not reviewed and
> split up into small patches) looks like a bit of a dead end.
>
> So I'm tempted by the idea of freezing this prototype at 2.6.18, and
> saying that any new development start from the ground up with the latest
> kernel.  I liked Trond's idea of starting with a patch that literally
> just clones the nfs_rpc_ops struct.  Interested in starting that?



last phone conf rahul said he would send out his 'battle plan' for getting
client sessions into the kernel after the client slot table and callback
channel code etc. needed for 4.1 bakeathon testing was added to the current
2.6.18.3 tree.

we need to address 4.1 bakeathon testing first - agreed?

-->Andy

> --b.
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