Re: [PATCH] lockd: add netlink control interface

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From: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx>

On Wed, 08 Jan 2025 16:00:15 -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
> The legacy rpc.nfsd tool will set the nlm_grace_period if the NFSv4
> grace period is set. nfsdctl is missing this functionality, so add a new
> netlink control interface for lockd that it can use. For now, it only
> allows setting the grace period, and the tcp and udp listener ports.
> 
> lockd currently uses module parameters and sysctls for configuration, so
> all of its settings are global. With this change, lockd now tracks these
> values on a per-net-ns basis. It will only fall back to using the global
> values if any of them are 0.
> 
> [...]

Applied to nfsd-testing, thanks!

This seems utterly reasonable to me. I'm thinking that it's a bit
late for v6.14, so for the moment it is parked in the testing
branch.

[1/1] lockd: add netlink control interface
      commit: c7ec1d59e4adf1660eec9e5ec0ee83f4a32c0a49

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Chuck Lever