SUNRPC: Separate buffer pointers for RPC Call and Reply messages

For xprtrdma, the RPC Call and Reply buffers are involved in real
I/O operations.

To start with, the DMA direction of the I/O for a Call is opposite
that of a Reply.

In the current arrangement, the Reply buffer address is on a
four-byte alignment just past the call buffer. Would be friendlier
on some platforms if that was at a DMA cache alignment instead.

Because the current arrangement allocates a single memory region
which contains both buffers, the RPC Reply buffer often contains a
page boundary in it when the Call buffer is large enough (which is
frequent).

It would be a little nicer for setting up DMA operations (and
possible registration of the Reply buffer) if the two buffers were
separated, well-aligned, and contained as few page boundaries as
possible.

Now, I could just pad out the single memory region used for the pair
of buffers. But frequently that would mean a lot of unused space to
ensure the Reply buffer did not have a page boundary.

Add a separate pointer to rpc_rqst that points right to the RPC
Reply buffer. This makes no difference to xprtsock, but it will help
xprtrdma in subsequent patches.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/sunrpc/sched.c b/net/sunrpc/sched.c
index 6690ebc774edca..5db68b371db2ca 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/sched.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/sched.c
@@ -891,6 +891,7 @@ int rpc_malloc(struct rpc_task *task)
 	dprintk("RPC: %5u allocated buffer of size %zu at %p\n",
 			task->tk_pid, size, buf);
 	rqst->rq_buffer = buf->data;
+	rqst->rq_rbuffer = (char *)rqst->rq_buffer + rqst->rq_callsize;
 	return 0;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rpc_malloc);