Re: [PATCHSET RFC 0/4] Propagate back queue status on accept

[Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>]

On Thu,  9 May 2024 12:00:25 -0600 Jens Axboe wrote:
> With io_uring, one thing we can do is tell userspace whether or not
> there's more data left in a socket after a receive is done. This is
> useful for applications to now, and it also helps make multishot receive
> requests more efficient by eliminating that last failed retry when the
> socket has no more data left. This is propagated by setting the
> IORING_CQE_F_SOCK_NONEMPTY flag, and is driven by setting
> msghdr->msg_get_inq and having the protocol fill out msghdr->msg_inq in
> that case.
> 
> For accept, there's a similar issue in that we'd like to know if there
> are more connections to accept after the current one has been accepted.
> Both because we can tell userspace about it, but also to drive multishot
> accept retries more efficiently, similar to recv/recvmsg.
> 
> This series starts by changing the proto/proto_ops accept prototypes
> to eliminate flags/errp/kern and replace it with a structure that
> encompasses all of them.

Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

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