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authorVenkateswararao Jujjuri (JV) <jvrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2011-02-16 20:54:22 (GMT)
committerEric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>2011-03-15 14:57:36 (GMT)
commitf735195d51e10b2550097f7b0ac12219060e962b (patch)
tree96e752ebf09cad819b9f5dcb178fc016a4dfdd86 /kernel
parentca41bb3e21d7b3cb2079e225e3a7e62e6c776518 (diff)
downloadlinux-f735195d51e10b2550097f7b0ac12219060e962b.tar.xz
[net/9p] Small non-IO PDUs for zero-copy supporting transports.
If a transport prefers payload to be sent separate from the PDU (P9_TRANS_PREF_PAYLOAD_SEP), there is no need to allocate msize PDU buffers(struct p9_fcall). This patch allocates only upto 4k buffers for this kind of transports and there won't be any change to the legacy transports. Hence, this patch on top of zero copy changes allows user to specify higher msizes through the mount option without hogging the kernel heap. Signed-off-by: Venkateswararao Jujjuri <jvrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
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