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Date:   Tue, 27 Oct 2020 08:08:23 +0200
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
To:     Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/20] NFSD support for multiple RPC/RDMA chunks
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On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 02:53:53PM -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> This series implements support for multiple RPC/RDMA chunks per RPC
> transaction. This is one of the few remaining generalities that the
> Linux NFS/RDMA server implementation lacks.
>
> There is currently one known NFS/RDMA client implementation that can
> send multiple chunks per RPC, and that is Solaris. Multiple chunks
> are rare enough that the Linux NFS/RDMA implementation has been
> successful without this support for many years.

So why do we need it? Solaris is dead, and like you wrote Linux systems
work without this feature just fine, what are the benefits? Who will use it?

Thanks