Declare MSG_SPLICE_PAGES, an internal sendmsg() flag, that hints to a
network protocol that it should splice pages from the source iterator
rather than copying the data if it can.
This is intended as a replacement for the ->sendpage() op, allowing a way
to splice in several multipage folios in one go.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
include/linux/socket.h | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/socket.h b/include/linux/socket.h
index 13c3a237b9c9..a67d02da3c54 100644
--- a/include/linux/socket.h
+++ b/include/linux/socket.h
@@ -327,6 +327,7 @@ struct ucred {
*/
#define MSG_ZEROCOPY 0x4000000 /* Use user data in kernel path */
+#define MSG_SPLICE_PAGES 0x8000000 /* Splice the pages from the iterator in sendmsg() */
#define MSG_FASTOPEN 0x20000000 /* Send data in TCP SYN */
#define MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC 0x40000000 /* Set close_on_exec for file
descriptor received through
