Ocfs2 devel - Nov 2018 - [RFC PATCH 0/5] ocfs2: support IPv6 communication in o2cb cluster

o2cb cluster only support IPv4 node configuration nowadays. Along with IPv6
used more widely, ocfs2 should also keep up with the pace. This patch
series add configfs attribute for IPv6 configure and build connnection
between nodes with IPv6 socket. So the nodes in cluster could send dlm
messages through IPv6 network protocol.

Jun Piao (5):
  ocfs2/cluster: add configfs attributes for IPv6 address and port
  ocfs2/cluster: implement show & store method for IPv6 attribute
  ocfs2/cluster: support IPv6 socket connection between nodes
  ocfs2/dlm: modify message DLM_QUERY_NODEINFO to adapt IPv6 node
  ocfs2/cluster: modify socket container macro to adapt IPv6

 cluster/nodemanager.c |  157 +++++++++++++++++++-----
 cluster/nodemanager.h |   11 +
 cluster/tcp.c         |  323 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 cluster/tcp.h         |    2
 dlm/dlmcommon.h       |   12 +
 dlm/dlmdomain.c       |   93 ++++++++++----
 6 files changed, 450 insertions(+), 148 deletions(-)

On Thu, 25 Oct 2018 18:31:15 +0800 piaojun <piaojun at huawei.com> wrote:
> o2cb cluster only support IPv4 node configuration nowadays. Along with IPv6
> used more widely, ocfs2 should also keep up with the pace. This patch
> series add configfs attribute for IPv6 configure and build connnection
> between nodes with IPv6 socket. So the nodes in cluster could send dlm
> messages through IPv6 network protocol.
Big patchset.  I'll await some reviewer input before looking at merging
this, I think.

Please update Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt to document all the
new userspace interfaces and the overall feature, etc.

Should the new code be hidden behind `#ifdef CONFIG_IPV6'?  That would
avoid some code bloat.

(That being said, if ocfs2 was concerned about code bloat, it would do
something about the fact that mlog() and mlog_errno() more than double
the file system's object code size).