netdev - [PATCH net-next v3 0/3] udp msg

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Date:   Thu, 29 Nov 2018 15:26:17 -0500
From:   Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, pabeni@...hat.com,
        Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next v3 0/3] udp msg_zerocopy

From: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>

Enable MSG_ZEROCOPY for udp sockets

Patch 1/3 is the main patch, a rework of RFC patch
  http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/899630/
  more details in the patch commit message

Patch 2/3 is an optimization to remove a branch from the UDP hot path
  and refcount_inc/refcount_dec_and_test pair when zerocopy is used.
  This used to be included in the first patch in v2.

Patch 3/3 runs the already existing udp zerocopy tests
  as part of kselftest

See also recent Linux Plumbers presentation
  https://linuxplumbersconf.org/event/2/contributions/106/attachments/104/128/willemdebruijn-lpc2018-udpgso-presentation-20181113.pdf

Changes:
  v1 -> v2
    - Fixup reverse christmas tree violation
  v2 -> v3
    - Split refcount avoidance optimization into separate patch
      - Fix refcount leak on error in fragmented case
        (thanks to Paolo Abeni for pointing this one out!)
      - Fix refcount inc on zero

Willem de Bruijn (3):
  udp: msg_zerocopy
  udp: elide zerocopy operation in hot path
  selftests: extend zerocopy tests to udp

 include/linux/skbuff.h                      | 13 +++++++----
 net/core/skbuff.c                           | 15 +++++++++----
 net/core/sock.c                             |  5 ++++-
 net/ipv4/ip_output.c                        | 25 +++++++++++++++++++--
 net/ipv4/tcp.c                              |  2 +-
 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c                       | 25 +++++++++++++++++++--
 tools/testing/selftests/net/msg_zerocopy.c  |  3 ++-
 tools/testing/selftests/net/msg_zerocopy.sh |  2 ++
 tools/testing/selftests/net/udpgso_bench.sh |  3 +++
 9 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

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