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Commit ca07eda3 authored by Chuck Lever's avatar Chuck Lever
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SUNRPC: Refactor svc_recvfrom()



This function is not currently "generic" so remove the documenting
comment and rename it appropriately. Its internals are converted to
use bio_vecs for reading from the transport socket.

In existing typical sunrpc uses of bio_vecs, the bio_vec array is
allocated dynamically. Here, instead, an array of bio_vecs is added
to svc_rqst. The lifetime of this array can be greater than one call
to xpo_recvfrom():

- Multiple calls to xpo_recvfrom() might be needed to read an RPC
  message completely.

- At some later point, rq_arg.bvecs will point to this array and it
  will carry the received message into svc_process().

I also expect that a future optimization will remove either the
rq_vec or rq_pages array in favor of rq_bvec, thus conserving the
size of struct svc_rqst.

Signed-off-by: default avatarChuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
parent cca557a5
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