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This simple data structure binds the location of each data payload inside of an RPC message to the chunk that will be used to push it to or pull it from the client. There are several benefits to this small additional overhead: * It enables support for more than one chunk in incoming Read and Write lists. * It translates the version-specific on-the-wire format into a generic in-memory structure, enabling support for multiple versions of the RPC/RDMA transport protocol. * It enables the server to re-organize a chunk list if it needs to adjust where Read chunk data lands in server memory without altering the contents of the XDR-encoded Receive buffer. Construction of these lists is done while sanity checking each incoming RPC/RDMA header. Subsequent patches will make use of the generated data structures. 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.