Re: [PATCH v2] lockd: get rid of reference-counted NSM RPC clients

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 05:45:15PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 7:39 AM, Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Currently we have reference-counted per-net NSM RPC client
> > which created on the first monitor request and destroyed
> > after the last unmonitor request. It's needed because
> > RPC client need to know 'utsname()->nodename', but utsname()
> > might be NULL when nsm_unmonitor() called.
> >
> 
> The other reason for keeping the rpc_client around is to avoid a need
> to do portmapper/rpcbind lookups in a net namespace that may be in the
> process of shutting down. This patchset will reintroduce that
> requirement.

Oops, yes, I think I remember now our dealing with that issue before.

So, that dooms this approach, sorry!

--b.
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