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Commit 2fcc213a authored by Chuck Lever's avatar Chuck Lever Committed by Anna Schumaker
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xprtrdma: Fix large NFS SYMLINK calls



Repair how rpcrdma_marshal_req() chooses which RDMA message type
to use for large non-WRITE operations so that it picks RDMA_NOMSG
in the correct situations, and sets up the marshaling logic to
SEND only the RPC/RDMA header.

Large NFSv2 SYMLINK requests now use RDMA_NOMSG calls. The Linux NFS
server XDR decoder for NFSv2 SYMLINK does not handle having the
pathname argument arrive in a separate buffer. The decoder could be
fixed, but this is simpler and RDMA_NOMSG can be used in a variety
of other situations.

Ensure that the Linux client continues to use "RDMA_MSG + read
list" when sending large NFSv3 SYMLINK requests, which is more
efficient than using RDMA_NOMSG.

Large NFSv4 CREATE(NF4LNK) requests are changed to use "RDMA_MSG +
read list" just like NFSv3 (see Section 5 of RFC 5667). Before,
these did not work at all.

Signed-off-by: default avatarChuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Tested-by: default avatarDevesh Sharma <devesh.sharma@avagotech.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAnna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
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