> On Feb 16, 2017, at 12:53 PM, Sagi Grimberg <s...@grimberg.me> wrote: > > Hey Chuck, > >>> As a side-effect, this set adds ipv6 support for nvme over fabrics. >>> I also converted iscsi target and plan to convert nfs/cifs next but >>> wanted to get some feedback before doing that. >> >> At least NFS/RDMA already supports IPv6. You might not need many >> changes there, but I'll hold off on further comments. > > Yea, I wanted to get all the rpc_pton/rpc_ntop (which handle both > ipv4 and ipv6 with scopes) converted to use a common helper.
RPC is dealing with universal addresses, which are not quite the same as IP presentation addresses. The port number is expressed as: hi8.lo8 And universal IPv6 addresses don't have a mechanism for conveying scope information. -- Chuck Lever
