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Commit d3dba534 authored by Chuck Lever's avatar Chuck Lever
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svcrdma: Implement multi-stage Read completion again



Having an nfsd thread waiting for an RDMA Read completion is
problematic if the Read responder (ie, the client) stops responding.
We need to go back to handling RDMA Reads by getting the svc scheduler
to call svc_rdma_recvfrom() a second time to finish building an RPC
message after a Read completion.

This is the final patch, and makes several changes that have to
happen concurrently:

1. svc_rdma_process_read_list no longer waits for a completion, but
   simply builds and posts the Read WRs.

2. svc_rdma_read_done() now queues a completed Read on
   sc_read_complete_q for later processing rather than calling
   complete().

3. The completed RPC message is no longer built in the
   svc_rdma_process_read_list() path. Finishing the message is now
   done in svc_rdma_recvfrom() when it notices work on the
   sc_read_complete_q. The "finish building this RPC message" code
   is removed from the svc_rdma_process_read_list() path.

This arrangement avoids the need for an nfsd thread to wait for an
RDMA Read non-interruptibly without a timeout. It's basically the
same code structure that Tom Tucker used for Read chunks along with
some clean-up and modernization.

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