netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: splice as many packets as possible at once

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Date:	Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:07:21 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	zbr@...emap.net
Cc:	dada1@...mosbay.com, w@....eu, ben@...s.com, jarkao2@...il.com,
	mingo@...e.hu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jens.axboe@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: splice as many packets as possible at once

From: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:05:48 +0300

> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 05:00:37PM +0100, Eric Dumazet (dada1@...mosbay.com) wrote:
> > While we drop lock in skb_splice_bits() to prevent the deadlock, we
> > also process backlog at this stage. No need to process backlog
> > again in the higher level function.
> 
> Yes, but having it earlier allows to receive new skb while processing
> already received.
> 
> > > I think that even with non-blocking splice that release_sock/lock_sock
> > > is needed, since we are able to do a parallel job: to receive new data
> > > (scheduled by early release_sock backlog processing) in bh and to
> > > process already received data via splice codepath.
> > > Maybe in non-blocking splice mode this is not an issue though, but for
> > > the blocking mode this allows to grab more skbs at once in skb_splice_bits.
> > 
> > skb_splice_bits() operates on one skb, you lost me :)
> 
> Exactly, and to have it we earlier release a socket so that it could be
> acked and while we copy it or doing anything else, the next one would
> received.

I think the socket release in skb_splice_bits() (although necessary)
just muddies the waters, and whether the extra one done in
tcp_splice_read() helps at all is open to debate.

That skb_clone() done by skb_splice_bits() pisses me off too,
we really ought to fix that.  And we also have that data corruption
bug to cure too.
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