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Reduce the doorbell and Send completion rates when sending RPC/RDMA replies that have Reply chunks. NFS READDIR procedures typically return their result in a Reply chunk, for example. Instead of calling ib_post_send() to post the Write WRs for the Reply chunk, and then calling it again to post the Send WR that conveys the transport header, chain the Write WRs to the Send WR and call ib_post_send() only once. Thanks to the Send Queue completion ordering rules, when the Send WR completes, that guarantees that Write WRs posted before it have also completed successfully. Thus all Write WRs for the Reply chunk can remain unsignaled. Instead of handling a Write completion and then a Send completion, only the Send completion is seen, and it handles clean up for both the Writes and the Send. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.