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The 'fld_read_server' uses 'RMF_GENERIC_DATA' to hold the 'FLD_QUERY' RPC reply that is composed of 'struct lu_seq_range_array'. But there is not registered swabber function for 'RMF_GENERIC_DATA'. So the RPC peers need to handle the RPC reply with fixed little-endian format. In theory, we can define new structure with some swabber registered to handle the 'FLD_QUERY' RPC reply result automatically. But from the implementation view, it is not easy to be done within current 'struct req_msg_field' framework. Because the sequence range array in the RPC reply is not fixed length, instead, its length depends on 'lu_seq_range' count, that is unknown when prepare the RPC buffer. Generally, for such flexible length RPC usage, there will be a field in the RPC layout to indicate the data length. But for the 'FLD_READ' RPC, we have no way to do that unless we add new length filed that will broken the on-wire RPC protocol and cause interoperability trouble with old peer. Signed-off-by: Fan Yong <fan.yong@intel.com> Intel-bug-id: https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-6284 Reviewed-on: http://review.whamcloud.com/22309 Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com> Reviewed-by: James Simmons <uja.ornl@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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