RPC_MALLOC(9) Linux Networking RPC_MALLOC(9)
NAME
rpc_malloc - allocate an RPC buffer
SYNOPSIS
void * rpc_malloc(struct rpc_task * task, size_t size);
ARGUMENTS
task
RPC task that will use this buffer
size
requested byte size
DESCRIPTION
To prevent rpciod from hanging, this allocator never sleeps, returning NULL if the request cannot be serviced immediately. The caller can
arrange to sleep in a way that is safe for rpciod.
Most requests are 'small' (under 2KiB) and can be serviced from a mempool, ensuring that NFS reads and writes can always proceed, and that
there is good locality of reference for these buffers.
In order to avoid memory starvation triggering more writebacks of NFS requests, we avoid using GFP_KERNEL.
COPYRIGHT
Kernel Hackers Manual 2.6. July 2010 RPC_MALLOC(9)
