tree 71f282609d76e42b8426c1c78f576f5dd9805d4c
parent b0e178a2d8ad4bd6c6bbf5d3f3cf50ca8907581b
author Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> 1445722022 -0400
committer Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com> 1446489915 -0500

xprtrdma: Replace send and receive arrays

The rb_send_bufs and rb_recv_bufs arrays are used to implement a
pair of stacks for keeping track of free rpcrdma_req and rpcrdma_rep
structs. Replace those arrays with free lists.

To allow more than 512 RPCs in-flight at once, each of these arrays
would be larger than a page (assuming 8-byte addresses and 4KB
pages). Allowing up to 64K in-flight RPCs (as TCP now does), each
buffer array would have to be 128 pages. That's an order-6
allocation. (Not that we're going there.)

A list is easier to expand dynamically. Instead of allocating a
larger array of pointers and copying the existing pointers to the
new array, simply append more buffers to each list.

This also makes it simpler to manage receive buffers that might
catch backwards-direction calls, or to post receive buffers in
bulk to amortize the overhead of ib_post_recv.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Devesh Sharma <devesh.sharma@avagotech.com>
Tested-By: Devesh Sharma <devesh.sharma@avagotech.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>