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From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>,
	Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 7/7] tcp: make tcp_sendmsg() aware of socket backlog
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 22:19:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5722EEDA.6060604@fb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1461906355.5535.141.camel@edumazet-glaptop3.roam.corp.google.com>

On 4/28/16 10:05 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-04-28 at 21:43 -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
>
>>
>> I don't understand the logic completely, but isn't it
>> safer to do 'goto wait_for_memory;' here if we happened
>> to hit this in the middle of the loop?
>
> Well, the wait_for_memory pushes data, and could early return to user
> space with short writes (non blocking IO). This would break things...

I see. Right. My only concern was about restarting the loop
and msg_data_left(), since it's really hard to follow iov_iter logic.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-29  5:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-29  3:10 [PATCH v2 net-next 0/7] net: make TCP preemptible Eric Dumazet
2016-04-29  3:10 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 1/7] tcp: do not assume TCP code is non preemptible Eric Dumazet
2016-04-29 13:18   ` Soheil Hassas Yeganeh
2016-04-29 14:37     ` Eric Dumazet
2016-04-29 14:41       ` Soheil Hassas Yeganeh
2016-04-29  3:10 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 2/7] tcp: do not block bh during prequeue processing Eric Dumazet
2016-04-29 13:20   ` Soheil Hassas Yeganeh
2016-04-29  3:10 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 3/7] dccp: do not assume DCCP code is non preemptible Eric Dumazet
2016-04-29 13:21   ` Soheil Hassas Yeganeh
2016-04-29  3:10 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 4/7] udp: prepare for non BH masking at backlog processing Eric Dumazet
2016-04-29 13:23   ` Soheil Hassas Yeganeh
2016-04-29  3:10 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 5/7] sctp: prepare for socket backlog behavior change Eric Dumazet
2016-04-29  3:10 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 6/7] net: do not block BH while processing socket backlog Eric Dumazet
2016-04-29 13:37   ` Soheil Hassas Yeganeh
2016-04-29  3:10 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 7/7] tcp: make tcp_sendmsg() aware of " Eric Dumazet
2016-04-29  4:43   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2016-04-29  5:05     ` Eric Dumazet
2016-04-29  5:19       ` Alexei Starovoitov [this message]
2016-04-29 13:13   ` Soheil Hassas Yeganeh
2016-04-29 20:39 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 0/7] net: make TCP preemptible David Miller
2016-04-29 20:53   ` Eric Dumazet
2016-04-30  9:57     ` Julian Anastasov

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