Ilya Dryomov [off-list ref] wrote:

write_partial_message_data() is net/ceph/messenger_v1.c specific, so it
doesn't apply here.  I would suggest squashing the two net/ceph patches
into one since even the titles are the same.

I would, but they're now applied to net-next, so we need to patch that.

quoted

  * Write as much as possible.  The socket is expected to be corked,
- * so we don't bother with MSG_MORE/MSG_SENDPAGE_NOTLAST here.
+ * so we don't bother with MSG_MORE here.
  *
  * Return:
- *   1 - done, nothing (else) to write
+ *  >0 - done, nothing (else) to write

It would be nice to avoid making tweaks like this to the outer
interface as part of switching to a new internal API.

Ok.  I'll change that and wrap the sendmsg in a loop.  Though, as I asked in
an earlier reply, why is MSG_DONTWAIT used here?

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+       if (WARN_ON(!iov_iter_is_bvec(&con->v2.out_iter)))
+               return -EINVAL;

Previously, this WARN_ON + error applied only to the "try sendpage"
path.  There is a ton of kvec usage in net/ceph/messenger_v2.c, so I'm
pretty sure that placing it here breaks everything.

This should have been removed as MSG_SPLICE_PAGES now accepts KVEC and XARRAY
iterators also.

Btw, is it feasible to use con->v2.out_iter_sendpage to apply MSG_SPLICE_PAGES
to the iterator to be transmitted as a whole?  It seems to be set depending on
iterator type.

David