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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 /net
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/9p/client.c23
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/net/9p/client.c b/net/9p/client.c
index 251abb1..43ec78a 100644
--- a/net/9p/client.c
+++ b/net/9p/client.c
@@ -229,10 +229,23 @@ static struct p9_req_t *p9_tag_alloc(struct p9_client *c, u16 tag)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
}
init_waitqueue_head(req->wq);
- req->tc = kmalloc(sizeof(struct p9_fcall)+c->msize,
- GFP_KERNEL);
- req->rc = kmalloc(sizeof(struct p9_fcall)+c->msize,
- GFP_KERNEL);
+ if ((c->trans_mod->pref & P9_TRANS_PREF_PAYLOAD_MASK) ==
+ P9_TRANS_PREF_PAYLOAD_SEP) {
+ int alloc_msize = min(c->msize, 4096);
+ req->tc = kmalloc(sizeof(struct p9_fcall)+alloc_msize,
+ GFP_KERNEL);
+ req->tc->capacity = alloc_msize;
+ req->rc = kmalloc(sizeof(struct p9_fcall)+alloc_msize,
+ GFP_KERNEL);
+ req->rc->capacity = alloc_msize;
+ } else {
+ req->tc = kmalloc(sizeof(struct p9_fcall)+c->msize,
+ GFP_KERNEL);
+ req->tc->capacity = c->msize;
+ req->rc = kmalloc(sizeof(struct p9_fcall)+c->msize,
+ GFP_KERNEL);
+ req->rc->capacity = c->msize;
+ }
if ((!req->tc) || (!req->rc)) {
printk(KERN_ERR "Couldn't grow tag array\n");
kfree(req->tc);
@@ -243,9 +256,7 @@ static struct p9_req_t *p9_tag_alloc(struct p9_client *c, u16 tag)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
}
req->tc->sdata = (char *) req->tc + sizeof(struct p9_fcall);
- req->tc->capacity = c->msize;
req->rc->sdata = (char *) req->rc + sizeof(struct p9_fcall);
- req->rc->capacity = c->msize;
}
p9pdu_reset(req->tc);