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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
To: "Aurélien Aptel" <aaptel-IBi9RG/b67k@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Ronnie Sahlberg
	<lsahlber-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>,
	linux-cifs <linux-cifs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org>,
	Steve French <smfrench-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/19] cifs: Add SendReceive3
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 23:25:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171103062527.GA8075@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o9okvkcd.fsf-IBi9RG/b67k@public.gmane.org>

On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 03:14:26PM +0100, Aurélien Aptel wrote:
> I know this is kind of unrelated but I've been thinking to myself we
> should try to get rid of this dynamic allocation at some point.
> 
> IIUC the iovec never has more than a couple of elements, so we could
> have something like a fixed sized stack allocated iovec array +
> MAX_IOVEC_LENGTH macro.
> 
> Doing a kmalloc() for every packet defeats the purpose of the memory
> pool optimization we use for small/large buffers.

Yes.  You probably just want everyone to allocate an additional
entry in the vector for the header if needed, and just leave the
slot empty and start processing at offset for cases like SMB direct.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-11-03  6:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-02  7:02 [PATCH 00/19] cifs: remove rfc1002 header from all smb2 requests Ronnie Sahlberg
     [not found] ` <20171102070312.18903-1-lsahlber-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2017-11-02  7:02   ` [PATCH 01/19] cifs: Add SendReceive3 Ronnie Sahlberg
     [not found]     ` <20171102070312.18903-2-lsahlber-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2017-11-02 14:14       ` Aurélien Aptel
     [not found]         ` <87o9okvkcd.fsf-IBi9RG/b67k@public.gmane.org>
2017-11-03  6:25           ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-11-03  6:27       ` Christoph Hellwig
     [not found]         ` <20171103062715.GB8075-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2017-11-03  6:37           ` ronnie sahlberg
     [not found]             ` <CAN05THS8m9Z=KwiGarKh4qJT-X_ZnYU_AqVe26NNtF3Ad9j5nQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2017-11-03 13:36               ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-11-02  7:02   ` [PATCH 02/19] cifs: remove rfc1002 header from smb2_negotiate_req Ronnie Sahlberg
2017-11-02  7:02   ` [PATCH 03/19] cifs: remove rfc1002 header from smb2_logoff_req Ronnie Sahlberg
2017-11-02  7:02   ` [PATCH 04/19] cifs: remove rfc1002 header from smb2_tree_disconnect_req Ronnie Sahlberg
2017-11-02  7:02   ` [PATCH 05/19] cifs: remove rfc1002 header from smb2_close_req Ronnie Sahlberg
2017-11-02  7:02   ` [PATCH 06/19] cifs: remove rfc1002 header from smb2_ioctl_req Ronnie Sahlberg
2017-11-02  7:03   ` [PATCH 07/19] cifs: remove rfc1002 header from smb2_echo_req Ronnie Sahlberg
2017-11-02  7:03   ` [PATCH 08/19] cifs: remove rfc1002 header from smb2_sess_setup_req Ronnie Sahlberg
2017-11-02  7:03   ` [PATCH 09/19] cifs: remove rfc1002 header from smb2_tree_connect_req Ronnie Sahlberg
2017-11-02  7:03   ` [PATCH 10/19] cifs: remove rfc1002 header from smb2_create_req Ronnie Sahlberg
2017-11-02  7:03   ` [PATCH 11/19] cifs: remove rfc1002 header from smb2_flush_req Ronnie Sahlberg
2017-11-02  7:03   ` [PATCH 12/19] cifs: remove rfc1002 header from smb2_lock_req Ronnie Sahlberg
2017-11-02  7:03   ` [PATCH 13/19] cifs: remove rfc1002 header from smb2 read/write requests Ronnie Sahlberg
2017-11-02  7:03   ` [PATCH 14/19] cifs: remove rfc1002 header from smb2_lease_ack Ronnie Sahlberg
2017-11-02  7:03   ` [PATCH 15/19] cifs: remove rfc1002 header from smb2_oplock_break we get from server Ronnie Sahlberg
2017-11-02  7:03   ` [PATCH 16/19] cifs: remove rfc1002 header from smb2_set_info_req Ronnie Sahlberg
2017-11-02  7:03   ` [PATCH 17/19] cifs: remove rfc1002 header from smb2_query_directory_req Ronnie Sahlberg
2017-11-02  7:03   ` [PATCH 18/19] cifs: remove rfc1002 header from smb2_query_info_req Ronnie Sahlberg
2017-11-02  7:03   ` [PATCH 19/19] cifs: remove small_smb2_init Ronnie Sahlberg
2017-11-08 14:38   ` [PATCH 00/19] cifs: remove rfc1002 header from all smb2 requests Aurélien Aptel
     [not found]     ` <87r2t8j0nc.fsf-IBi9RG/b67k@public.gmane.org>
2017-11-08 15:46       ` Aurélien Aptel
     [not found]         ` <87o9ocixio.fsf-IBi9RG/b67k@public.gmane.org>
2017-11-09  0:48           ` ronnie sahlberg
     [not found]             ` <CAN05THRX2dDBVA7+aCYnatYpm0EEH=iPdcwE40BSROOPmCPkcg-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2017-11-17  1:16               ` Pavel Shilovsky

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