SUNRPC: Support for RPC over AF_LOCAL transports

TI-RPC introduces the capability of performing RPC over AF_LOCAL
sockets.  It uses this mainly for registering and unregistering
local RPC services securely with the local rpcbind, but we could
also conceivably use it as a generic upcall mechanism.

This patch provides a client-side only implementation for the moment.
We might also consider a server-side implementation to provide
AF_LOCAL access to NLM (for statd downcalls, and such like).

Autobinding is not supported on kernel AF_LOCAL transports at this
time.  Kernel ULPs must specify the pathname of the remote endpoint
when an AF_LOCAL transport is created.  rpcbind supports registering
services available via AF_LOCAL, so the kernel could handle it with
some adjustment to ->rpcbind and ->set_port.  But we don't need this
feature for doing upcalls via well-known named sockets.

This has not been tested with ULPs that move a substantial amount of
data.  Thus, I can't attest to how robust the write_space and
congestion management logic is.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
This commit is contained in:
Chuck Lever
2011-05-09 15:22:44 -04:00
committed by Trond Myklebust
parent 559649efb9
commit 176e21ee2e
4 changed files with 403 additions and 4 deletions

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@ -145,6 +145,7 @@ typedef __be32 rpc_fraghdr;
#define RPCBIND_NETID_TCP "tcp"
#define RPCBIND_NETID_UDP6 "udp6"
#define RPCBIND_NETID_TCP6 "tcp6"
#define RPCBIND_NETID_LOCAL "local"
/*
* Note that RFC 1833 does not put any size restrictions on the

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@ -141,7 +141,8 @@ enum xprt_transports {
XPRT_TRANSPORT_UDP = IPPROTO_UDP,
XPRT_TRANSPORT_TCP = IPPROTO_TCP,
XPRT_TRANSPORT_BC_TCP = IPPROTO_TCP | XPRT_TRANSPORT_BC,
XPRT_TRANSPORT_RDMA = 256
XPRT_TRANSPORT_RDMA = 256,
XPRT_TRANSPORT_LOCAL = 257,
};
struct rpc_xprt {