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Date:	Thu, 10 May 2012 14:19:48 +0300
From:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:	Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@...rix.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/9] sunrpc: use SKB fragment destructors to delay
 completion until page is released by network stack.

On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 03:56:11PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> diff --git a/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c b/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c
> index f6d8c73..1145929 100644
> --- a/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c
> +++ b/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c
> @@ -198,7 +198,8 @@ int svc_send_common(struct socket *sock, struct xdr_buf *xdr,
>  	while (pglen > 0) {
>  		if (slen == size)
>  			flags = 0;
> -		result = kernel_sendpage(sock, *ppage, NULL, base, size, flags);
> +		result = kernel_sendpage(sock, *ppage, xdr->destructor,
> +					 base, size, flags);
>  		if (result > 0)
>  			len += result;
>  		if (result != size)

So I tried triggering this by simply creating an nfs export on localhost
and copying a large file out with dd, but this never seems to trigger
this code.

Any idea how to test?

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MST
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