The 4.1 call/reply logic definitely did work, but whatever.  The call
flow is completely changed.

As far as I know, there should be no reason to queue anything above
ntirpc, after refactoring.

Matt

On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 10:08 AM, William Allen Simpson
<william.allen.simp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Currently, when clnt_call() is invoked, that thread waits for the
> result to come back over the network.  There are 250 or so "fridge"
> threads during startup for this alone.
>
> I've already changed the rpc_ctx_xfer_replymsg() to be transport
> agnostic (it was clnt_vc only).  And added a result XPRT_DISPATCH to
> both NTI-RPC and NFS-Ganesha to prepare for distinguishing CALL
> from REPLY dispatching.
>
> There's already a lot of mechanism in struct _rpc_call rpc_call_t
> handling a callback.  But the nfs_rpc_submit_call() flag
> NFS_RPC_CALL_INLINE skipping the nfs_rpc_enqueue_req() doesn't
> seem to work well (or at all).
>
> Ideally, we'd never queue, and an async callback would complete
> the transaction.  We need to discuss how to tie that together.
>
> My current expectation is that various fields of the Ganesha
> rpc_call_t should be merged/replaced by fields in the NTI_RPC
> struct svc_req so that async dispatch can handle the callback.
>
> But I don't really know the callback code as well as others, so
> really would like some discussion and planning.
>
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