From a2e2725541fad72416326798c2d7fa4dafb7d337 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:40:10 -0700 Subject: net: Introduce recvmmsg socket syscall MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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. . Rémi 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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/linux/net.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux/net.h') diff --git a/include/linux/net.h b/include/linux/net.h index 529a0931711..b42bb60fe92 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 */ -- cgit v1.2.3