summary refs log tree commit diff
path: root/fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorChuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>2015-08-03 13:04:26 -0400
committerAnna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>2015-08-05 16:21:28 -0400
commit2fcc213a18644610c79edbb5e847d73c6c5d5ded (patch)
tree24d5f10a807a088046882981005be2ceb69739b2 /fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c
parent677eb17e94edfbbea3b7e628d8aa046930f102c3 (diff)
downloadlinux-2fcc213a18644610c79edbb5e847d73c6c5d5ded.tar.gz
xprtrdma: Fix large NFS SYMLINK calls
Repair how rpcrdma_marshal_req() chooses which RDMA message type
to use for large non-WRITE operations so that it picks RDMA_NOMSG
in the correct situations, and sets up the marshaling logic to
SEND only the RPC/RDMA header.

Large NFSv2 SYMLINK requests now use RDMA_NOMSG calls. The Linux NFS
server XDR decoder for NFSv2 SYMLINK does not handle having the
pathname argument arrive in a separate buffer. The decoder could be
fixed, but this is simpler and RDMA_NOMSG can be used in a variety
of other situations.

Ensure that the Linux client continues to use "RDMA_MSG + read
list" when sending large NFSv3 SYMLINK requests, which is more
efficient than using RDMA_NOMSG.

Large NFSv4 CREATE(NF4LNK) requests are changed to use "RDMA_MSG +
read list" just like NFSv3 (see Section 5 of RFC 5667). Before,
these did not work at all.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Devesh Sharma <devesh.sharma@avagotech.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c
index 558cd65dbdb7..c42459e45f62 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c
@@ -1154,7 +1154,9 @@ static void encode_create(struct xdr_stream *xdr, const struct nfs4_create_arg *
 	case NF4LNK:
 		p = reserve_space(xdr, 4);
 		*p = cpu_to_be32(create->u.symlink.len);
-		xdr_write_pages(xdr, create->u.symlink.pages, 0, create->u.symlink.len);
+		xdr_write_pages(xdr, create->u.symlink.pages, 0,
+				create->u.symlink.len);
+		xdr->buf->flags |= XDRBUF_WRITE;
 		break;
 
 	case NF4BLK: case NF4CHR: