Thread (54 messages) 54 messages, 7 authors, 2023-03-25

RE: [RFC PATCH 03/28] tcp: Support MSG_SPLICE_PAGES

From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
Date: 2023-03-16 18:37:06
Also in: linux-fsdevel, linux-mm, lkml

David Howells wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Make TCP's sendmsg() support MSG_SPLICE_PAGES.  This causes pages to be
spliced from the source iterator if possible (the iterator must be
ITER_BVEC and the pages must be spliceable).

This allows ->sendpage() to be replaced by something that can handle
multiple multipage folios in a single transaction.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
---
 net/ipv4/tcp.c | 59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 53 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
index 288693981b00..77c0c69208a5 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
@@ -1220,7 +1220,7 @@ 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;
@@ -1231,17 +1231,24 @@ 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;
 		} 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 = 1;
+			else
 				uarg_to_msgzc(uarg)->zerocopy = 0;
 		}
+	} else if (unlikely(flags & MSG_SPLICE_PAGES) && size) {
+		if (!iov_iter_is_bvec(&msg->msg_iter))
+			return -EINVAL;
+		if (sk->sk_route_caps & NETIF_F_SG)
+			zc = 2;
 	}
The commit message mentions MSG_SPLICE_PAGES as an internal flag.

It can be passed from userspace. The code anticipates that and checks
preconditions.

A side effect is that legacy applications that may already be setting
this bit in the flags now start failing. Most socket types are
historically permissive and simply ignore undefined flags.

With MSG_ZEROCOPY we chose to be extra cautious and added
SOCK_ZEROCOPY, only testing the MSG_ZEROCOPY bit if this socket option
is explicitly enabled. Perhaps more cautious than necessary, but FYI.
Keyboard shortcuts
hback out one level
jnext message in thread
kprevious message in thread
ldrill in
Escclose help / fold thread tree
?toggle this help