This is the simplest and, as usual, the best implementation :)
100% zero-copy implementation is also possible (see rdma-zerocopy branch),
but it requires to create A LOT of queues (~128 per client) to use QPN as a 'tag'
because of the lack of receive tags and the server may simply run out of queues.
Hardware limit is 262144 on Mellanox ConnectX-4 which amounts to only 2048
'connections' per host. And even with that amount of queues it's still less optimal
than the non-zerocopy one.
In fact, newest hardware like Mellanox ConnectX-5 does have Tag Matching
support, but it's still unsuitable for us because it doesn't support scatter/gather
(tm_caps.max_sge=1).
Each inode has: image name, parent inode number & pool, size and readonly flag
Snapshots are created by switching image name to a different inode number
while using the older inode as parent.
VNPL 1.1 is slightly reworded to make it clear that proprietary software
interacting with Vitastor and providing some kind of service to end users isn't
a "Proxy Program" if it's not specially designed to be used with Vitastor.
For example, Windows OS running in a virtual machine stored in a Vitastor
cluster clearly isn't.
