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Trond Myklebust 3b27bad7f7 SUNRPC: Allow caller of rpc_sleep_on() to select priority levels
Currently, the caller has to change the value of task->tk_priority if
it wants to select on which priority level the task will sleep.

This patch allows the caller to select a priority level at sleep time
rather than always using task->tk_priority.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-07-17 18:11:34 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 0b760113a3 NLM: Don't hang forever on NLM unlock requests
If the NLM daemon is killed on the NFS server, we can currently end up
hanging forever on an 'unlock' request, instead of aborting. Basically,
if the rpcbind request fails, or the server keeps returning garbage, we
really want to quit instead of retrying.

Tested-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2011-06-15 11:24:27 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 7494d00c7b SUNRPC: Allow RPC calls to return ETIMEDOUT instead of EIO
On occasion, it is useful for the NFS layer to distinguish between
soft timeouts and other EIO errors due to (say) encoding errors,
or authentication errors.

The following patch ensures that the default behaviour of the RPC
layer remains to return EIO on soft timeouts (until we have
audited all the callers).

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-04-24 14:28:45 -04:00
Bryan Schumaker 468f86134e NFSv4.1: Don't update sequence number if rpc_task is not sent
If we fail to contact the gss upcall program, then no message will
be sent to the server.  The client still updated the sequence number,
however, and this lead to NFS4ERR_SEQ_MISMATCH for the next several
RPC calls.

Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-04-18 17:05:48 -04:00
Trond Myklebust bf294b41ce SUNRPC: Close a race in __rpc_wait_for_completion_task()
Although they run as rpciod background tasks, under normal operation
(i.e. no SIGKILL), functions like nfs_sillyrename(), nfs4_proc_unlck()
and nfs4_do_close() want to be fully synchronous. This means that when we
exit, we want all references to the rpc_task to be gone, and we want
any dentry references etc. held by that task to be released.

For this reason these functions call __rpc_wait_for_completion_task(),
followed by rpc_put_task() in the expectation that the latter will be
releasing the last reference to the rpc_task, and thus ensuring that the
callback_ops->rpc_release() has been called synchronously.

This patch fixes a race which exists due to the fact that
rpciod calls rpc_complete_task() (in order to wake up the callers of
__rpc_wait_for_completion_task()) and then subsequently calls
rpc_put_task() without ensuring that these two steps are done atomically.

In order to avoid adding new spin locks, the patch uses the existing
waitqueue spin lock to order the rpc_task reference count releases between
the waiting process and rpciod.
The common case where nobody is waiting for completion is optimised for by
checking if the RPC_TASK_ASYNC flag is cleared and/or if the rpc_task
reference count is 1: in those cases we drop trying to grab the spin lock,
and immediately free up the rpc_task.

Those few processes that need to put the rpc_task from inside an
asynchronous context and that do not care about ordering are given a new
helper: rpc_put_task_async().

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-03-10 15:04:52 -05:00
Trond Myklebust d9b6cd9460 SUNRPC: Ensure that rpc_exit() always wakes up a sleeping task
Make rpc_exit() non-inline, and ensure that it always wakes up a task that
has been queued.

Kill off the now unused rpc_wake_up_task().

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-08-04 08:54:07 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 9bb0b8136a SUNRPC: Reorder the struct rpc_task fields
This improves the packing of the rpc_task, and ensures that on 64-bit
platforms the size reduces to 216 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-05-14 15:09:37 -04:00
Trond Myklebust d72b6cec8d SUNRPC: Remove the 'tk_magic' debugging field
It has not triggered in almost a decade. Time to get rid of it...

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-05-14 15:09:36 -04:00
Trond Myklebust d60dbb20a7 SUNRPC: Move the task->tk_bytes_sent and tk_rtt to struct rpc_rqst
It seems strange to maintain stats for bytes_sent in one structure, and
bytes received in another. Try to assemble all the RPC request-related
stats in struct rpc_rqst

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-05-14 15:09:36 -04:00
Chuck Lever ff8399709e SUNRPC: Replace jiffies-based metrics with ktime-based metrics
Currently RPC performance metrics that tabulate elapsed time use
jiffies time values.  This is problematic on systems that use slow
jiffies (for instance 100HZ systems built for paravirtualized
environments).  It is also a problem for computing precise latency
statistics for advanced network transports, such as InfiniBand,
that can have round-trip latencies significanly faster than a single
clock tick.

For the RPC client, adopt the high resolution time stamp mechanism
already used by the network layer and blktrace: ktime.

We use ktime format time stamps for all internal computations, and
convert to milliseconds for presentation.  As a result, we need only
addition operations in the performance critical paths; multiply/divide
is required only for presentation.

We could report RTT metrics in microseconds.  In fact the mountstats
format is versioned to accomodate exactly this kind of interface
improvement.

For now, however, we'll stay with millisecond precision for
presentation to maintain backwards compatibility with the handful of
currently deployed user space tools.  At a later point, we'll move to
an API such as BDI_STATS where a finer timestamp precision can be
reported.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-05-14 15:09:33 -04:00
Alexandros Batsakis cf3b01b548 rpc: add a new priority in RPC task
Signed-off-by: Alexandros Batsakis <batsakis@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-12-15 13:53:54 -05:00
Alexandros Batsakis 48f1861242 rpc: add rpc_queue_empty function
Signed-off-by: Alexandros Batsakis <batsakis@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-12-15 13:51:17 -05:00
Chuck Lever 09a21c4102 SUNRPC: Allow RPCs to fail quickly if the server is unreachable
The kernel sometimes makes RPC calls to services that aren't running.
Because the kernel's RPC client always assumes the hard retry semantic
when reconnecting a connection-oriented RPC transport, the underlying
reconnect logic takes a long while to time out, even though the remote
may have responded immediately with ECONNREFUSED.

In certain cases, like upcalls to our local rpcbind daemon, or for NFS
mount requests, we'd like the kernel to fail immediately if the remote
service isn't reachable.  This allows another transport to be tried
immediately, or the pending request can be abandoned quickly.

Introduce a per-request flag which controls how call_transmit_status()
behaves when request transmission fails because the server cannot be
reached.

We don't want soft connection semantics to apply to other errors.  The
default case of the switch statement in call_transmit_status() no
longer falls through; the fall through code is copied to the default
case, and a "break;" is added.

The transport's connection re-establishment timeout is also ignored for
such requests.  We want the request to fail immediately, so the
reconnect delay is skipped.  Additionally, we don't want a connect
failure here to further increase the reconnect timeout value, since
this request will not be retried.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-12-03 15:58:56 -05:00
Ricardo Labiaga 55ae1aabfb nfs41: Add backchannel processing support to RPC state machine
Adds rpc_run_bc_task() which is called by the NFS callback service to
process backchannel requests.  It performs similar work to rpc_run_task()
though "schedules" the backchannel task to be executed starting at the
call_trasmit state in the RPC state machine.

It also introduces some miscellaneous updates to the argument validation,
call_transmit, and transport cleanup functions to take into account
that there are now forechannel and backchannel tasks.

Backchannel requests do not carry an RPC message structure, since the
payload has already been XDR encoded using the existing NFSv4 callback
mechanism.

Introduce a new transmit state for the client to reply on to backchannel
requests.  This new state simply reserves the transport and issues the
reply.  In case of a connection related error, disconnects the transport and
drops the reply.  It requires the forechannel to re-establish the connection
and the server to retransmit the request, as stated in NFSv4.1 section
2.9.2 "Client and Server Transport Behavior".

Note: There is no need to loop attempting to reserve the transport.  If EAGAIN
is returned by xprt_prepare_transmit(), return with tk_status == 0,
setting tk_action to call_bc_transmit.  rpc_execute() will invoke it again
after the task is taken off the sleep queue.

[nfs41: rpc_run_bc_task() need not be exported outside RPC module]
[nfs41: New call_bc_transmit RPC state]
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Labiaga <Ricardo.Labiaga@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfs41: Backchannel: No need to loop in call_bc_transmit()]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Labiaga <Ricardo.Labiaga@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[rpc_count_iostats incorrectly exits early]
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Labiaga <Ricardo.Labiaga@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[Convert rpc_reply_expected() to inline function]
[Remove unnecessary BUG_ON()]
[Rename variable]
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Labiaga <Ricardo.Labiaga@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
2009-06-17 14:11:24 -07:00
Andy Adamson aae2006e9b nfs41: sunrpc: Export the call prepare state for session reset
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson<andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-06-17 12:25:07 -07:00
\\\"J. Bruce Fields\\\ a486aeda9b rpc: minor cleanup of scheduler callback code
Try to make the comment here a little more clear and concise.

Also, this macro definition seems unnecessary.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-07-09 12:09:14 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 5e4424af9a SUNRPC: Remove now-redundant RCU-safe rpc_task free path
Now that we've tightened up the locking rules for RPC queue wakeups, we can
remove the RCU-safe kfree calls...

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-02-28 23:26:28 -08:00
Trond Myklebust f5fb7b06e4 SUNRPC: Eliminate the now-redundant rpc_start_wakeup()
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-02-28 23:26:25 -08:00
Trond Myklebust eb276c0e10 SUNRPC: Switch tasks to using the rpc_waitqueue's timer function
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-02-28 23:26:21 -08:00
Trond Myklebust 36df9aae31 SUNRPC: Add a timer function to wait queues.
This is designed to replace the timeout timer in the individual rpc_tasks.
By putting the timer function in the wait queue, we will eventually be able
to reduce the total number of timers in use by the RPC subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-02-28 23:21:59 -08:00
Trond Myklebust f6a1cc8930 SUNRPC: Add a (empty for the moment) destructor for rpc_wait_queues
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-02-28 23:17:27 -08:00
Trond Myklebust 5d00837b90 SUNRPC: Run rpc timeout functions as callbacks instead of in softirqs
An audit of the current RPC timeout functions shows that they don't really
ever need to run in the softirq context. As long as the softirq is
able to signal that the wakeup is due to a timeout (which it can do by
setting task->tk_status to -ETIMEDOUT) then the callback functions can just
run as standard task->tk_callback functions (in the rpciod/process
context).

The only possible border-line case would be xprt_timer() for the case of
UDP, when the callback is used to reduce the size of the transport
congestion window. In testing, however, the effect of moving that update
to a callback would appear to be minor.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-02-25 21:40:44 -08:00
Trond Myklebust fda1393938 SUNRPC: Convert users of rpc_wake_up_task to use rpc_wake_up_queued_task
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-02-25 21:40:42 -08:00
Trond Myklebust 96ef13b283 SUNRPC: Add a new helper rpc_wake_up_queued_task()
In all cases where we currently use rpc_wake_up_task(), we almost always
know on which waitqueue the rpc_task is actually sleeping. This will allows
us to simplify the queue locking in a future patch.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-02-25 21:40:40 -08:00
Trond Myklebust 32bfb5c0f4 SUNRPC: Allow the rpc_release() callback to be run on another workqueue
A lot of the work done by the rpc_release() callback is inappropriate for
rpciod as it will often involve things like starting a new rpc call in
order to clean up state after an interrupted NFSv4 open() call, or
calls to mntput(), etc.

This patch allows the caller of rpc_run_task() to specify that the
rpc_release callback should run on a different workqueue than the default
rpciod_workqueue.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-02-25 21:40:34 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 75659ca0c1 Merge branch 'task_killable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc
* 'task_killable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc: (22 commits)
  Remove commented-out code copied from NFS
  NFS: Switch from intr mount option to TASK_KILLABLE
  Add wait_for_completion_killable
  Add wait_event_killable
  Add schedule_timeout_killable
  Use mutex_lock_killable in vfs_readdir
  Add mutex_lock_killable
  Use lock_page_killable
  Add lock_page_killable
  Add fatal_signal_pending
  Add TASK_WAKEKILL
  exit: Use task_is_*
  signal: Use task_is_*
  sched: Use task_contributes_to_load, TASK_ALL and TASK_NORMAL
  ptrace: Use task_is_*
  power: Use task_is_*
  wait: Use TASK_NORMAL
  proc/base.c: Use task_is_*
  proc/array.c: Use TASK_REPORT
  perfmon: Use task_is_*
  ...

Fixed up conflicts in NFS/sunrpc manually..
2008-02-01 11:45:47 +11:00
Trond Myklebust c087567d3f SUNRPC: Remove the obsolete RPC_WAITQ macro
Now that we've killed off all the users.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-01-30 02:05:41 -05:00
Trond Myklebust 47fe064831 SUNRPC: Unexport rpc_init_task() and rpc_execute()
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-01-30 02:05:40 -05:00
Trond Myklebust e8f5d77c80 SUNRPC: allow the caller of rpc_run_task to preallocate the struct rpc_task
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-01-30 02:05:38 -05:00
Trond Myklebust 3ff7576dda SUNRPC: Clean up the initialisation of priority queue scheduling info.
We want the default scheduling priority (priority == 0) to remain
RPC_PRIORITY_NORMAL.

Also ensure that the priority wait queue scheduling is per process id
instead of sometimes being per thread, and sometimes being per inode.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-01-30 02:05:30 -05:00
Trond Myklebust c970aa85e7 SUNRPC: Clean up rpc_run_task
Make it use the new task initialiser structure instead of acting as a
wrapper.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-01-30 02:05:30 -05:00
Trond Myklebust 84115e1cd4 SUNRPC: Cleanup of rpc_task initialisation
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-01-30 02:05:30 -05:00
Matthew Wilcox 150030b78a NFS: Switch from intr mount option to TASK_KILLABLE
By using the TASK_KILLABLE infrastructure, we can get rid of the 'intr'
mount option.  We have to use _killable everywhere instead of _interruptible
as we get rid of rpc_clnt_sigmask/sigunmask.

Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <howlett@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
2007-12-06 17:40:25 -05:00
Trond Myklebust 1be27f3660 SUNRPC: Remove the tk_auth macro...
We should almost always be deferencing the rpc_auth struct by means of the
credential's cr_auth field instead of the rpc_clnt->cl_auth anyway. Fix up
that historical mistake, and remove the macro that propagated it.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-10 23:40:37 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 6529eba08f SUNRPC: Move rpc_task->tk_task list into struct rpc_clnt
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-10 23:40:28 -04:00
Chuck Lever c5a4dd8b7c SUNRPC: Eliminate side effects from rpc_malloc
Currently rpc_malloc sets req->rq_buffer internally.  Make this a more
generic interface:  return a pointer to the new buffer (or NULL) and
make the caller set req->rq_buffer and req->rq_bufsize.  This looks much
more like kmalloc and eliminates the side effects.

To fix a potential deadlock, this patch also replaces GFP_NOFS with
GFP_NOWAIT in rpc_malloc.  This prevents async RPCs from sleeping outside
the RPC's task scheduler while allocating their buffer.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-04-30 22:17:11 -07:00
Ralf Baechle 7b8f850beb [PATCH] Fix build errors if bitop functions are do {} while macros
If one of clear_bit, change_bit or set_bit is defined as a do { } while (0)
function usage of these functions in parenthesis like

  (foo_bit(23, &var))

while be expaned to something like

  (do { ... } while (0)}).

resulting in a build error.  This patch removes the useless parenthesis.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-20 17:10:12 -08:00
Trond Myklebust 2efef837fb RPC: Clean up rpc_execute...
The error values are already propagated through task->tk_status, and
none of the callers check one without checking the other, so we can
drop the return value.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-02-03 15:35:03 -08:00
Trond Myklebust bde8f00ce6 [PATCH] NFS: Fix Oops in rpc_call_sync()
Fix the Oops in http://bugzilla.linux-nfs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138
We shouldn't be calling rpc_release_task() for tasks that are not active.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-24 12:31:06 -08:00
Trond Myklebust 21b4e73692 Merge branch 'master' of /home/trondmy/kernel/linux-2.6/ into merge_linus 2006-12-07 16:35:17 -05:00
Peter Zijlstra 6cfd76a26d [PATCH] lockdep: name some old style locks
Name some of the remaning 'old_style_spin_init' locks

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:36 -08:00
Trond Myklebust bbd5a1f9fc SUNRPC: Fix up missing BKL in asynchronous RPC callback functions
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-12-06 10:46:29 -05:00
Trond Myklebust 8aca67f0ae SUNRPC: Fix a potential race in rpc_wake_up_task()
Use RCU to ensure that we can safely call rpc_finish_wakeup after we've
called __rpc_do_wake_up_task. If not, there is a theoretical race, in which
the rpc_task finishes executing, and gets freed first.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-12-06 10:46:26 -05:00
Trond Myklebust e6b3c4db6f Fix a second potential rpc_wakeup race...
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-12-06 10:46:25 -05:00
Chuck Lever 5b1eacbcd7 SUNRPC: Support for RPC child tasks no longer needed
The previous patches removed the last user of RPC child tasks, so we can
remove support for child tasks from net/sunrpc/sched.c now.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-09-22 23:24:40 -04:00
Chuck Lever dead28da8e SUNRPC: eliminate rpc_call()
Clean-up: replace rpc_call() helper with direct call to rpc_call_sync.

This makes NFSv2 and NFSv3 synchronous calls more computationally
efficient, and reduces stack consumption in functions that used to
invoke rpc_call more than once.

Test plan:
Compile kernel with CONFIG_NFS enabled.  Connectathon on NFS version 2,
version 3, and version 4 mount points.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-03-20 13:44:23 -05:00
Chuck Lever ef759a2e54 SUNRPC: introduce per-task RPC iostats
Account for various things that occur while an RPC task is executed.
Separate timers for RPC round trip and RPC execution time show how
long RPC requests wait in queue before being sent.  Eventually these
will be accumulated at xprt_release time in one place where they can
be viewed from userland.

Test plan:
Compile kernel with CONFIG_NFS enabled.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-03-20 13:44:17 -05:00
Chuck Lever e19b63dafd SUNRPC: track length of RPC wait queues
RPC wait queue length will eventually be exported to userland via the RPC
iostats interface.

Test plan:
Compile kernel with CONFIG_NFS enabled.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-03-20 13:44:15 -05:00
Trond Myklebust 24c5d9d7ea SUNRPC: Run rpci->queue_timeout on the rpciod workqueue instead of generic
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-03-20 13:44:08 -05:00
Chuck Lever 0210714834 SUNRPC: switchable buffer allocation
Add RPC client transport switch support for replacing buffer management
 on a per-transport basis.

 In the current IPv4 socket transport implementation, RPC buffers are
 allocated as needed for each RPC message that is sent.  Some transport
 implementations may choose to use pre-allocated buffers for encoding,
 sending, receiving, and unmarshalling RPC messages, however.  For
 transports capable of direct data placement, the buffers can be carved
 out of a pre-registered area of memory rather than from a slab cache.

 Test-plan:
 Millions of fsx operations.  Performance characterization with "sio" and
 "iozone".  Use oprofile and other tools to look for significant regression
 in CPU utilization.

 Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-01-06 14:58:55 -05:00