[pnfs] [PATCH] preallocate a backchannel request in xs_tcp_data_ready

Ricardo Labiaga ricardo.labiaga at netapp.com
Thu Nov 29 20:13:10 EST 2007


Trond,

Are you suggesting to preallocate N rpc_rqst's and "associate" them to
the backchannel when the session is created?  N being the number of
slots the client tells the server to use for callbacks.

Thanks,

- ricardo

On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 09:29 -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> 
> 
> That would be a totally unacceptable slowdown on the forward channel,
> and is quite unnecessary. You have a session and you have given the
> server a set number of slots for the back channel. You therefore
> _know_
> how much space you need to preallocate in order to be able to service
> all requests that will be arriving on the back channel. 


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