user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/socket.h, branch v3.0.50

tcp: allow splice() to build full TSO packets

2012-04-27T16:51:18Z

[ This combines upstream commit 2f53384424251c06038ae612e56231b96ab610ee and the follow-on bug fix commit 35f9c09fe9c72eb8ca2b8e89a593e1c151f28fc2 ] vmsplice()/splice(pipe, socket) call do_tcp_sendpages() one page at a time, adding at most 4096 bytes to an skb. (assuming PAGE_SIZE=4096) The call to tcp_push() at the end of do_tcp_sendpages() forces an immediate xmit when pipe is not already filled, and tso_fragment() try to split these skb to MSS multiples. 4096 bytes are usually split in a skb with 2 MSS, and a remaining sub-mss skb (assuming MTU=1500) This makes slow start suboptimal because many small frames are sent to qdisc/driver layers instead of big ones (constrained by cwnd and packets in flight of course) In fact, applications using sendmsg() (adding an additional memory copy) instead of vmsplice()/splice()/sendfile() are a bit faster because of this anomaly, especially if serving small files in environments with large initial [c]wnd. Call tcp_push() only if MSG_MORE is not set in the flags parameter. This bit is automatically provided by splice() internals but for the last page, or on all pages if user specified SPLICE_F_MORE splice() flag. In some workloads, this can reduce number of sent logical packets by an order of magnitude, making zero-copy TCP actually faster than one-copy :) Reported-by: Tom Herbert Cc: Nandita Dukkipati Cc: Neal Cardwell Cc: Tom Herbert Cc: Yuchung Cheng Cc: H.K. Jerry Chu Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski Cc: Mahesh Bandewar Cc: Ilpo Järvinen Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: Add sendmmsg socket system call

2011-05-05T18:10:14Z

This patch adds a multiple message send syscall and is the send version of the existing recvmmsg syscall. This is heavily based on the patch by Arnaldo that added recvmmsg. I wrote a microbenchmark to test the performance gains of using this new syscall: http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/sendmmsg_test.c The test was run on a ppc64 box with a 10 Gbit network card. The benchmark can send both UDP and RAW ethernet packets. 64B UDP batch pkts/sec 1 804570 2 872800 (+ 8 %) 4 916556 (+14 %) 8 939712 (+17 %) 16 952688 (+18 %) 32 956448 (+19 %) 64 964800 (+20 %) 64B raw socket batch pkts/sec 1 1201449 2 1350028 (+12 %) 4 1461416 (+22 %) 8 1513080 (+26 %) 16 1541216 (+28 %) 32 1553440 (+29 %) 64 1557888 (+30 %) We see a 20% improvement in throughput on UDP send and 30% on raw socket send. [ Add sparc syscall entries. -DaveM ] Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Fix common misspellings

2011-03-31T14:26:23Z

Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6

2011-01-13T18:25:58Z

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (46 commits) hwrng: via_rng - Fix memory scribbling on some CPUs crypto: padlock - Move padlock.h into include/crypto hwrng: via_rng - Fix asm constraints crypto: n2 - use __devexit not __exit in n2_unregister_algs crypto: mark crypto workqueues CPU_INTENSIVE crypto: mv_cesa - dont return PTR_ERR() of wrong pointer crypto: ripemd - Set module author and update email address crypto: omap-sham - backlog handling fix crypto: gf128mul - Remove experimental tag crypto: af_alg - fix af_alg memory_allocated data type crypto: aesni-intel - Fixed build with binutils 2.16 crypto: af_alg - Make sure sk_security is initialized on accept()ed sockets net: Add missing lockdep class names for af_alg include: Install linux/if_alg.h for user-space crypto API crypto: omap-aes - checkpatch --file warning fixes crypto: omap-aes - initialize aes module once per request crypto: omap-aes - unnecessary code removed crypto: omap-aes - error handling implementation improved crypto: omap-aes - redundant locking is removed crypto: omap-aes - DMA initialization fixes for OMAP off mode ...

net: remove the duplicate #ifdef KERNEL

2011-01-06T19:41:42Z

Since we are already in #ifdef __KERNEL__, we don't need to check it again. Signed-off-by: Changli Gao Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net - Add AF_ALG macros

2010-11-19T07:39:46Z

This patch adds the socket family/level macros for the yet-to-be-born AF_ALG family. The AF_ALG family provides the user-space interface for the kernel crypto API. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu Acked-by: David S. Miller

net: Limit socket I/O iovec total length to INT_MAX.

2010-10-28T18:47:52Z

This helps protect us from overflow issues down in the individual protocol sendmsg/recvmsg handlers. Once we hit INT_MAX we truncate out the rest of the iovec by setting the iov_len members to zero. This works because: 1) For SOCK_STREAM and SOCK_SEQPACKET sockets, partial writes are allowed and the application will just continue with another write to send the rest of the data. 2) For datagram oriented sockets, where there must be a one-to-one correspondance between write() calls and packets on the wire, INT_MAX is going to be far larger than the packet size limit the protocol is going to check for and signal with -EMSGSIZE. Based upon a patch by Linus Torvalds. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

socket: localize functions

2010-10-21T10:09:42Z

A couple of functions in socket.c are only used there and should be localized. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: Fix >4GB writes on 64-bit.

2010-09-28T03:24:54Z

Fixes kernel bugzilla #16603 tcp_sendmsg() truncates iov_len to an 'int' which a 4GB write to write zero bytes, for example. There is also the problem higher up of how verify_iovec() works. It wants to prevent the total length from looking like an error return value. However it does this using 'int', but syscalls return 'long' (and thus signed 64-bit on 64-bit machines). So it could trigger false-positives on 64-bit as written. So fix it to use 'long'. Reported-by: Olaf Bonorden Reported-by: Daniel Büse Reported-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

sock: Introduce cred_to_ucred

2010-06-16T21:55:35Z

To keep the coming code clear and to allow both the sock code and the scm code to share the logic introduce a fuction to translate from struct cred to struct ucred. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov Signed-off-by: David S. Miller