svcrdma: Avoid DMA mapping small RPC Replies
On some platforms, DMA mapping part of a page is more costly than
copying bytes. Indeed, not involving the I/O MMU can help the
RPC/RDMA transport scale better for tiny I/Os across more RDMA
devices. This is because interaction with the I/O MMU is eliminated
for each of these small I/Os. Without the explicit unmapping, the
NIC no longer needs to do a costly internal TLB shoot down for
buffers that are just a handful of bytes.
Since pull-up is now a more a frequent operation, I've introduced a
trace point in the pull-up path. It can be used for debugging or
user-space tools that count pull-up frequency.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
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