staging: lustre: ptlrpc: comment for FLD_QUERY RPC reply swab
authorFan Yong <fan.yong@intel.com>
Sun, 29 Jan 2017 00:04:58 +0000 (19:04 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 3 Feb 2017 12:01:37 +0000 (13:01 +0100)
commitc843ce20125d75663300baffd69692468d5c7d9f
treeb1ff41d3655a9329fbea06b5e9a338c5d242fce0
parent07b71df1496b602ca36af42a6e217cde7ba6902c
staging: lustre: ptlrpc: comment for FLD_QUERY RPC reply swab

The 'fld_read_server' uses 'RMF_GENERIC_DATA' to hold the 'FLD_QUERY'
RPC reply that is composed of 'struct lu_seq_range_array'. But there
is not registered swabber function for 'RMF_GENERIC_DATA'. So the RPC
peers need to handle the RPC reply with fixed little-endian format.

In theory, we can define new structure with some swabber registered
to handle the 'FLD_QUERY' RPC reply result automatically. But from
the implementation view, it is not easy to be done within current
'struct req_msg_field' framework. Because the sequence range array
in the RPC reply is not fixed length, instead, its length depends
on 'lu_seq_range' count, that is unknown when prepare the RPC buffer.
Generally, for such flexible length RPC usage, there will be a field
in the RPC layout to indicate the data length. But for the 'FLD_READ'
RPC, we have no way to do that unless we add new length filed that
will broken the on-wire RPC protocol and cause interoperability
trouble with old peer.

Signed-off-by: Fan Yong <fan.yong@intel.com>
Intel-bug-id: https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-6284
Reviewed-on: http://review.whamcloud.com/22309
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: James Simmons <uja.ornl@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/layout.c