RE: [[PATCH v1] 15/37] [CIFS] SMBD: Post a SMBD data transfer message with data payload

[Tom Talpey]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-cifs-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-cifs-
> owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Long Li
> Sent: Wednesday, August 2, 2017 4:10 PM
> To: Steve French <sfrench@xxxxxxxxx>; linux-cifs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; samba-
> technical@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Long Li <longli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [[PATCH v1] 15/37] [CIFS] SMBD: Post a SMBD data transfer message
> with data payload
> 
 
> Similar to sending transfer message with page payload, this function creates a
> SMBD data packet and send it over to RDMA, from iov passed from upper layer.

The following routine is heavily redundant with 14/37 cifs_rdma_post_send_page().
Because they share quite a bit of protocol and DMA mapping logic, strongly suggest
they be merged.

Tom.

> +static int cifs_rdma_post_send_data(
> +               struct cifs_rdma_info *info,
> +               struct kvec *iov, int n_vec, int remaining_data_length);
>  static int cifs_rdma_post_send_page(struct cifs_rdma_info *info,
>                 struct page *page, unsigned long offset,
>                 size_t size, int remaining_data_length);
> @@ -671,6 +674,122 @@ static int cifs_rdma_post_send_page(struct
> cifs_rdma_info *info, struct page *pa
>  }