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

[Iyer, Rahul]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: William A. (Andy) Adamson [mailto:andros at citi.umich.edu] 
> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 10:03 AM
> To: J. Bruce Fields
> Cc: Iyer, Rahul; pnfs at linux-nfs.org
> Subject: Re: [pnfs] [PATCH] Removed sessions hard-coded 32678 
> byte max sizes
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> On 3/16/07, J. Bruce Fields <bfields at fieldses.org> wrote:
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> 	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?
> 
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> 
> 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?
> 
>

Yes, this is my opinion too. That way we don't have 2 half done
prototypes and nothing to test at the Bakeathon.
Regards
Rahul
 
> -->Andy
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