[OpenAFS-devel] Re: [PATCH] in-core AFS multiplexor and PAG support

Christoph Hellwig hch@infradead.org
Tue, 13 May 2003 21:23:35 +0100


On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 05:12:36PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> At what level? There're two levels of mux...
> 
>  (1) four syscalls
> 
>  (2) 30-ish pioctls, 40-ish control functions and 20-ish ICL functions.
> 
> If I go for (2) as I think you're suggesting, that's on the order of at least
> 90 new syscalls, probably more when Arla's additions are included...

As a first patch two pag syscalls.  After that please post an implementation
for every additional syscall you need to this list (or groups thereof) after
you moved most to an afsctl fs.


> > and do you really think this is a 2.6 thing?
> 
> Yes.

Care to explain why?