1RPC_MALLOC(9)                  Linux Networking                  RPC_MALLOC(9)
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NAME

6       rpc_malloc - allocate an RPC buffer
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SYNOPSIS

9       void * rpc_malloc(struct rpc_task * task, size_t size);
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ARGUMENTS

12       task
13           RPC task that will use this buffer
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16           requested byte size
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DESCRIPTION

19       To prevent rpciod from hanging, this allocator never sleeps, returning
20       NULL if the request cannot be serviced immediately. The caller can
21       arrange to sleep in a way that is safe for rpciod.
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23       Most requests are ´small´ (under 2KiB) and can be serviced from a
24       mempool, ensuring that NFS reads and writes can always proceed, and
25       that there is good locality of reference for these buffers.
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27       In order to avoid memory starvation triggering more writebacks of NFS
28       requests, we avoid using GFP_KERNEL.
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31Kernel Hackers Manual 2.6.         June 2019                     RPC_MALLOC(9)
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