linux-kernel - [0/3] net: Kill skb_copy_datagram_const

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Date:	Mon, 3 Nov 2014 13:37:51 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...ck.org>
Subject: [0/3] net: Kill skb_copy_datagram_const_iovec

On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 12:45:03AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
>
> Note, BTW, that there's a damn good reason to convert the socket side of
> things to iov_iter - as it is, ->splice_write() there is basically done with
> page-by-page mapping and doing kernel_sendmsg(); being able to deal with
> "map and copy" stuff *inside* ->sendmsg() would not only reduce the overhead,
> it would allow to get rid of ->sendpage() completely.  Basically, let
> ->sendmsg() instances check the iov_iter type and play zerocopy games if
> it's an "array of kernel pages" kind.  Compare ->sendpage() and ->sendmsg()
> instances for the protocols that have nontrivial ->sendpage(); you'll see
> that there's a lot of duplication.  Merging them looks very feasible, with
> divergence happening only very deep in the call chain.

Honestly I don't really care which way we end up going as long as
we pick one solution and stick with it.  Right now we have an
abomination in the form of skb_copy_datagram_const_iovec which is
the worst of both worlds, plus it duplicates tons of code.

So here's a few patches to kill this crap.

Cheers,
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