From: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@xxxxxxxxxx> Previously, decoding was a one step process that expanded holes as they were seen in the buffer. This had a few undesireable side effects: 1) An extra READ_PLUS call was often needed to fetch any data shifted off the end of the buffer when the last two segments are a HOLE followed by DATA 2) We shifted the entire remaining buffer for each hole, meaning some segments would get moved multiple times during one decode pass. These patches attempt to address this by turning READ_PLUS decoding into a two-step process. First, we build up a list of each segment returned by the server, then we walk the list in reverse and move each segment directly to their target offset. This cuts out all the extra copying, and means we won't lose any data off of the end of the reply. Changes in V3: - Move the "Introduce xdr_stream_move_subsegment()" patch into this series so it can be applied now while work on the server side continues. - Drop the patch removing the Kconfig option at Trond's suggestion. Thoughts? Anna Anna Schumaker (5): SUNRPC: Introduce xdr_stream_move_subsegment() SUNRPC: Add a function for directly setting the xdr page len SUNRPC: Add a function for zeroing out a portion of an xdr_stream NFS: Replace the READ_PLUS decoding code SUNRPC: Remove xdr_align_data() and xdr_expand_hole() fs/nfs/nfs42xdr.c | 168 ++++++++++++++++++------------------ include/linux/sunrpc/xdr.h | 7 +- net/sunrpc/xdr.c | 170 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- 3 files changed, 200 insertions(+), 145 deletions(-) -- 2.37.1