tree 37bffd81e08b8e50394ce89a1aa7a3961f0ffbe7
parent 03c21733938aad0758f5f88e1cc7ede69fc3c910
author Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com> 1136278549 +0100
committer Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> 1136577535 -0500

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>