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

[Long Li]

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> From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
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> Subject: Re: [[PATCH v1] 15/37] [CIFS] SMBD: Post a SMBD data transfer
> message with data payload
> 
> You can always get the struct page for kernel allocations using virt_to_page
> (or vmalloc_to_page, but this code would not handle the vmalloc case either),
> so I don't think you need this helper and can always use the one added in the
> previous patch.

I partially addressed this issue in the V3 patch. Most of the duplicate code on sending path is merged.

The difficulty with translating the buffer to pages is that: I don't know how many pages will be translated, and how many struct page I need to allocate in advance to hold them. I try to avoid memory allocation in the I/O path as much as possible. So I keep two functions of sending data: one for buffer and one for pages.