[net/9p] Small non-IO PDUs for zero-copy supporting transports.
authorVenkateswararao Jujjuri (JV) <jvrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:54:22 +0000 (12:54 -0800)
committerEric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:57:36 +0000 (09:57 -0500)
If a transport prefers payload to be sent separate from the PDU
(P9_TRANS_PREF_PAYLOAD_SEP), there is no need to allocate msize
PDU buffers(struct p9_fcall).

This patch allocates only upto 4k buffers for this kind of transports
and there won't be any change to the legacy transports.

Hence, this patch on top of zero copy changes allows user to
specify higher msizes through the mount option
without hogging the kernel heap.

Signed-off-by: Venkateswararao Jujjuri <jvrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>

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