netdev - Re: sendfile()? Re: SO_LINGER dead: I get an immediate RST on 2.6.24?

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Message-Id: <20090111235001.536a858d.billfink@mindspring.com>
Date:	Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:50:01 -0500
From:	Bill Fink <billfink@...dspring.com>
To:	Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>
Cc:	bert hubert <bert.hubert@...herlabs.nl>,
	"H. Willstrand" <h.willstrand@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sendfile()? Re: SO_LINGER dead: I get an immediate RST on
 2.6.24?

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:08:24AM +0100, bert hubert (bert.hubert@...herlabs.nl) wrote:
> > I fully understand. Sometimes I have to talk to stupid devices though. What
> > I do find is the TCP_INFO ioctl, which offers this field in struct tcp_info:
> > 
> >         __u32   tcpi_unacked;
> > 
> > Which comes from:
> > 
> > struct tcp_sock {
> > ...
> >         u32     packets_out;    /* Packets which are "in flight"        */
> > ...
> > }
> > 
> > If this becomes 0, perhaps this might tell me everything I sent was acked?
> 
> 0 means that there are noin-flight packets, which is effectively number
> of unacked packets. So if your application waits for this field to
> become zero, it will wait for all sent packets to be acked.

I use this type of strategy in nuttcp, and it seems to work fine.
I have a loop with a small delay and a check of tcpi_unacked, and
break out of the loop if tcpi_unacked becomes 0 or a defined timeout
period has passed.

						-Bill
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