On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 6:09 PM David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Make TCP's sendmsg() support MSG_SPLICE_PAGES. This causes pages to be
> spliced or copied (if it cannot be spliced) from the source iterator.
>
> This allows ->sendpage() to be replaced by something that can handle
> multiple multipage folios in a single transaction.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
> cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> cc: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxxx>
> cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
> cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
> cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
> cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
>
> Notes:
> ver #6)
> - Use common helper.
>
> net/ipv4/tcp.c | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
> 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
> index fd68d49490f2..0b2213da5aaf 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
> @@ -1221,7 +1221,7 @@ int tcp_sendmsg_locked(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, size_t size)
> int flags, err, copied = 0;
> int mss_now = 0, size_goal, copied_syn = 0;
> int process_backlog = 0;
> - bool zc = false;
> + int zc = 0;
> long timeo;
>
> flags = msg->msg_flags;
> @@ -1232,17 +1232,22 @@ int tcp_sendmsg_locked(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, size_t size)
> if (msg->msg_ubuf) {
> uarg = msg->msg_ubuf;
> net_zcopy_get(uarg);
> - zc = sk->sk_route_caps & NETIF_F_SG;
> + if (sk->sk_route_caps & NETIF_F_SG)
> + zc = 1;
zc is set to 0, 1, MSG_ZEROCOPY , MSG_SPLICE_PAGES
I find this a bit confusing. Maybe use a private enum ?
> } else if (sock_flag(sk, SOCK_ZEROCOPY)) {
> uarg = msg_zerocopy_realloc(sk, size, skb_zcopy(skb));
> if (!uarg) {
> err = -ENOBUFS;
> goto out_err;
> }
> - zc = sk->sk_route_caps & NETIF_F_SG;
> - if (!zc)
> + if (sk->sk_route_caps & NETIF_F_SG)
> + zc = MSG_ZEROCOPY;
> + else
> uarg_to_msgzc(uarg)->zerocopy = 0;
> }
> + } else if (unlikely(msg->msg_flags & MSG_SPLICE_PAGES) && size) {
> + if (sk->sk_route_caps & NETIF_F_SG)
> + zc = MSG_SPLICE_PAGES;
