When deciding whether to send a Call inline, rpcrdma_marshal_req doesn't take into account header bytes consumed by chunk lists. This results in Call messages on the wire that are sometimes larger than the inline threshold.
I'm not sure I understand why you need to account the chunk list size when deciding on the inline data size., aren't chunk lists for remote access only? Is this a first-burst kind of functionality?
Likewise, when a Write list or Reply chunk is in play, the server's reply has to emit an RDMA Send that includes a larger-than-minimal RPC-over-RDMA header. The actual size of a Call message cannot be estimated until after the chunk lists have been registered. Thus the size of each RPC-over-RDMA header can be estimated only after chunks are registered; but the decision to register chunks is based on the size of that header. Chicken, meet egg.
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The best a client can do is estimate header size based on the largest header that might occur, and then ensure that inline content is always smaller than that.
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