CheckSizeAndSerialize Check the size of a payload and marshall it (optionally compress it) The dual role makes sense as you will never serialize without checking the size of the payload.

GetPayloadDrops returns the number of times we dropped some payloads because we couldn't split them.

Payloads serializes a metadata payload and sends it to the forwarder.

Enumeration of the existing marshal types.

Enumeration of the existing marshal types.

MarshalType is the type of marshaler to use.