[RFC][PATCH 4/4] Represent RPC Callers

[Trond Myklebust]

On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 17:13 -0800, Matt Helsley wrote:
> plain text document attachment (move-rpc-client-nodename-cache.patch)
> Currently RPC needs to know the nodename (often the same as the hostname) which
> should be used for UNIX-style authentication and file-lock tracking. Because
> hostname can change between RPC calls and some sequences of RPC calls may
> require consistent names between calls RPC currently saves the nodename with
> the RPC client structure.
> 
> This is doesn't always work because RPC clients may be discarded over the
> lifetime of a higher level service -- like those that compose NFS. Specifically
> this is known to happen during shutdown.
> 
> Hence RPC should expect the nodename to be saved by the caller when sequences
> of RPC calls requiring consistent nodenames may be needed (e.g. NFS). To enable
> this we introduce an RPC caller structure that allows RPC to query the caller
> for this information.
> 
> This patch is not complete but is meant to indicate the direction I'm planning
> on going. I'd like to know if there are any objections or if anyone sees a
> better way to handle this.

You're planning on slowing down every RPC call in order to fix a problem
on client shutdown? Why?

Trond