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xprtrdma: Pull up sometimes

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On some platforms, DMA mapping part of a page is more costly than
copying bytes. Restore the pull-up code and use that when we
think it's going to be faster. The heuristic for now is to pull-up
when the size of the RPC message body fits in the buffer underlying
the head iovec.

Indeed, not involving the I/O MMU can help the RPC/RDMA transport
scale better for tiny I/Os across more RDMA devices. This is because
interaction with the I/O MMU is eliminated, as is handling a Send
completion, for each of these small I/Os. Without the explicit
unmapping, the NIC no longer needs to do a costly internal TLB shoot
down for buffers that are just a handful of bytes.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
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Chuck Lever 2019-10-17 14:31:53 -04:00 • committed by Anna Schumaker
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