netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: do not promote SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK to socket O

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Date:	Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:35:50 +0400
From:	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>
To:	Octavian Purdila <opurdila@...acom.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	axboe@...nel.dk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: do not promote SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK to socket O_NONBLOCK

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 09:16:43PM +0300, Octavian Purdila (opurdila@...acom.com) wrote:
> tcp_read_sock
>  ... -> skb_splice_bits -> spd_fill_page; 
>   on return (spd->nr_page is 1 and pipe->nrbufs is 1)
>  ... -> skb_splice_bits -> spd_fill_page; 
>   on return (spd->nr_page is 1 and pipe->nrbufs is 2)
>  ... -> skb_splice_bits -> spd_fill_page; 
>   on return (spd->nr_page is 1 and pipe->nrbufs is 3)
> ...
> 
> and so on until pipe->nrbufs is 16. At than point, we will block in pipe_wait, 
> inside splice_to_pipe.

Seems that SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK check should be propagated from
tcp_splice_read() into skb_splice_bits(), and this flag is actually
there already in tss.flags.

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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