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author | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2009-10-12 23:40:10 -0700 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-10-12 23:40:10 -0700 |
commit | a2e2725541fad72416326798c2d7fa4dafb7d337 (patch) | |
tree | 6174be11da607e83eb8efb3775114ad4d6e0ca3a /include/linux/net.h | |
parent | c05e85a06e376f6b6d59e71e5333d707e956d78b (diff) | |
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net: Introduce recvmmsg socket syscall
Meaning receive multiple messages, reducing the number of syscalls and
net stack entry/exit operations.
Next patches will introduce mechanisms where protocols that want to
optimize this operation will provide an unlocked_recvmsg operation.
This takes into account comments made by:
. Paul Moore: sock_recvmsg is called only for the first datagram,
sock_recvmsg_nosec is used for the rest.
. Caitlin Bestler: recvmmsg now has a struct timespec timeout, that
works in the same fashion as the ppoll one.
If the underlying protocol returns a datagram with MSG_OOB set, this
will make recvmmsg return right away with as many datagrams (+ the OOB
one) it has received so far.
. RĂ©mi Denis-Courmont & Steven Whitehouse: If we receive N < vlen
datagrams and then recvmsg returns an error, recvmmsg will return
the successfully received datagrams, store the error and return it
in the next call.
This paves the way for a subsequent optimization, sk_prot->unlocked_recvmsg,
where we will be able to acquire the lock only at batch start and end, not at
every underlying recvmsg call.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/net.h')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/net.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/net.h b/include/linux/net.h index 529a0931711d..b42bb60fe92f 100644 --- a/include/linux/net.h +++ b/include/linux/net.h @@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ #define SYS_SENDMSG 16 /* sys_sendmsg(2) */ #define SYS_RECVMSG 17 /* sys_recvmsg(2) */ #define SYS_ACCEPT4 18 /* sys_accept4(2) */ +#define SYS_RECVMMSG 19 /* sys_recvmmsg(2) */ typedef enum { SS_FREE = 0, /* not allocated */ |