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Commit 3a88092e authored by Chuck Lever's avatar Chuck Lever Committed by J. Bruce Fields
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svcrdma: Preserve Receive buffer until svc_rdma_sendto



Rather than releasing the incoming svc_rdma_recv_ctxt at the end of
svc_rdma_recvfrom, hold onto it until svc_rdma_sendto.

This permits the contents of the Receive buffer to be preserved
through svc_process and then referenced directly in sendto as it
constructs Write and Reply chunks to return to the client.

The real changes will come in subsequent patches.

Note: I cannot use ->xpo_release_rqst for this purpose because that
is called _before_ ->xpo_sendto. svc_rdma_sendto uses information in
the received Call transport header to construct the Reply transport
header, which is preserved in the RPC's Receive buffer.

The historical comment in svc_send() isn't helpful: it is already
obvious that ->xpo_release_rqst is being called before ->xpo_sendto,
but there is no explanation for this ordering going back to the
beginning of the git era.

Signed-off-by: default avatarChuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
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