netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: allow splice() to build full TSO packets

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Date:	Fri, 06 Apr 2012 03:59:24 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, ncardwell@...gle.com, therbert@...gle.com,
	ycheng@...gle.com, hkchu@...gle.com, maze@...gle.com,
	maheshb@...gle.com, ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi, nanditad@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: allow splice() to build full TSO packets

On Thu, 2012-04-05 at 19:05 -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:05:35 +0200
> 
> > Hmm, thinking again about this, I did more tests and it appears we need
> > to differentiate the SPLICE_F_MORE flag (user request) and the internal
> > marker provided by splice logic (handling a batch of pages)
> > 
> > A program doing splice(... SPLICE_F_MORE) should really call tcp_push()
> > at the end of its work.
> 
> This is the kind of problem I was hoping we weren't introducing
> when I asked about sendfile() et al. the other day :-)

Yes, sorry for this.

Yet sendfile() did not have this problem (or so I believe), only the
splice(SPLICE_F_MORE) did.

Thanks


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