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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2009-10-13 10:40:10 +0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-10-13 10:40:10 +0400
commita2e2725541fad72416326798c2d7fa4dafb7d337 (patch)
tree6174be11da607e83eb8efb3775114ad4d6e0ca3a /include/linux/net.h
parentc05e85a06e376f6b6d59e71e5333d707e956d78b (diff)
downloadlinux-a2e2725541fad72416326798c2d7fa4dafb7d337.tar.xz
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>
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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 */