xprtrdma: Provide a buffer to pad Write chunks of unaligned length
This is a buffer to be left persistently registered while a connection is up. Connection tear-down will automatically DMA-unmap, invalidate, and dereg the MR. A persistently registered buffer is lower in cost to provide, and it can never be coalesced into the RDMA segment that carries the data payload. An RPC that provisions a Write chunk with a non-aligned length now uses this MR rather than the tail buffer of the RPC's rq_rcv_buf. Reviewed-By: Tom Talpey <tom@talpey.com> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
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