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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, ncardwell@google.com,
	therbert@google.com, ycheng@google.com, hkchu@google.com,
	maze@google.com, maheshb@google.com, ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi,
	nanditad@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: allow splice() to build full TSO packets
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 02:20:06 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120404.022006.438740898640436561.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1333520128.18626.382.camel@edumazet-glaptop>

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:15:28 +0200

> On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 18:50 -0400, David Miller wrote:
> 
>> Eric, sorry to be a pain, but to clear my conscience can you tell me
>> if the sendfile() path do the right thing with your change too?
>> 
>> I'm concerned about returning back into userspace without at least
>> one tcp_push() at the end.
> 
> Absolutely, this patch also handles the sendfile() path.
> 
> do_sendfile() ->
>  do_splice_direct() ->
>   splice_direct_to_actor() -> 
>    ...
>     splice_from_pipe() ->
>      splice_from_pipe_feed() ->
>       pipe_to_sendpage()  more = (sd->flags & SPLICE_F_MORE) || sd->len < sd->total_len
>        sock_sendpage() if (more) flags |= MSG_MORE;
>         kernel_sendpage()
>          inet_sendpage()
>           tcp_sendpage()
> 
> So the push is perfomed at the end (last page doesnt have MSG_MORE flag)

Perfect, thanks for double checking.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-04  6:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-03 19:37 [PATCH] tcp: allow splice() to build full TSO packets Eric Dumazet
2012-04-03 21:21 ` David Miller
2012-04-03 21:31   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-04-03 21:36     ` David Miller
2012-04-03 22:50       ` David Miller
2012-04-04  6:15         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-04-04  6:20           ` David Miller [this message]
2012-04-05 13:05       ` Eric Dumazet
2012-04-05 23:05         ` David Miller
2012-04-06  1:59           ` Eric Dumazet

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