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| author | Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> | 2012-04-05 03:05:35 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2012-04-05 19:04:27 -0400 |
| commit | 35f9c09fe9c72eb8ca2b8e89a593e1c151f28fc2 (patch) | |
| tree | 6e57508d6633c47b8846cfdbaefc33e6e0128a47 /include | |
| parent | 78d50217baf36093ab320f95bae0d6452daec85c (diff) | |
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tcp: tcp_sendpages() should call tcp_push() once
commit 2f533844242 (tcp: allow splice() to build full TSO packets) added
a regression for splice() calls using SPLICE_F_MORE.
We need to call tcp_flush() at the end of the last page processed in
tcp_sendpages(), or else transmits can be deferred and future sends
stall.
Add a new internal flag, MSG_SENDPAGE_NOTLAST, acting like MSG_MORE, but
with different semantic.
For all sendpage() providers, its a transparent change. Only
sock_sendpage() and tcp_sendpages() can differentiate the two different
flags provided by pipe_to_sendpage()
Reported-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: H.K. Jerry Chu <hkchu@google.com>
Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com>
Cc: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Cc: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail>com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/socket.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/socket.h b/include/linux/socket.h index da2d3e2543f3..b84bbd48b874 100644 --- a/include/linux/socket.h +++ b/include/linux/socket.h @@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ struct ucred { #define MSG_NOSIGNAL 0x4000 /* Do not generate SIGPIPE */ #define MSG_MORE 0x8000 /* Sender will send more */ #define MSG_WAITFORONE 0x10000 /* recvmmsg(): block until 1+ packets avail */ - +#define MSG_SENDPAGE_NOTLAST 0x20000 /* sendpage() internal : not the last page */ #define MSG_EOF MSG_FIN #define MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC 0x40000000 /* Set close_on_exit for file |