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tcp-zerocopy: Return inq along with tcp receive zerocopy.

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This patchset is intended to reduce the number of extra system calls
imposed by TCP receive zerocopy. For ping-pong RPC style workloads,
this patchset has demonstrated a system call reduction of about 30%
when coupled with userspace changes.

For applications using edge-triggered epoll, returning inq along with
the result of tcp receive zerocopy could remove the need to call
recvmsg()=-EAGAIN after a successful zerocopy. Generally speaking,
since normally we would need to perform a recvmsg() call for every
successful small RPC read via TCP receive zerocopy, returning inq can
reduce the number of system calls performed by approximately half.

Signed-off-by: Arjun Roy <arjunroy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Arjun Roy 2020-02-14 15:30:49 -08:00 • committed by David S. Miller
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@ -345,5 +345,6 @@ struct tcp_zerocopy_receive {
__u64 address; /* in: address of mapping */
__u32 length; /* in/out: number of bytes to map/mapped */
__u32 recv_skip_hint; /* out: amount of bytes to skip */
__u32 inq; /* out: amount of bytes in read queue */
};
#endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_TCP_H */