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Date:   Fri, 29 May 2020 13:05:14 -0300
From:   Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>,
        Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
        David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com>,
        linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        cluster-devel@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] sctp: add sctp_sock_set_nodelay

On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 02:09:40PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Add a helper to directly set the SCTP_NODELAY sockopt from kernel space
> without going through a fake uaccess.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>

Acked-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>

I'm taking the action item to make sctp_setsockopt_nodelay() use the
new helper. Will likely create a __ variant of it, due to sock lock.

> ---
>  fs/dlm/lowcomms.c       | 10 ++--------
>  include/net/sctp/sctp.h |  7 +++++++
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/dlm/lowcomms.c b/fs/dlm/lowcomms.c
> index 69333728d871b..9f1c3cdc9d653 100644
> --- a/fs/dlm/lowcomms.c
> +++ b/fs/dlm/lowcomms.c
> @@ -914,7 +914,6 @@ static int sctp_bind_addrs(struct connection *con, uint16_t port)
>  static void sctp_connect_to_sock(struct connection *con)
>  {
>  	struct sockaddr_storage daddr;
> -	int one = 1;
>  	int result;
>  	int addr_len;
>  	struct socket *sock;
> @@ -961,8 +960,7 @@ static void sctp_connect_to_sock(struct connection *con)
>  	log_print("connecting to %d", con->nodeid);
>  
>  	/* Turn off Nagle's algorithm */
> -	kernel_setsockopt(sock, SOL_SCTP, SCTP_NODELAY, (char *)&one,
> -			  sizeof(one));
> +	sctp_sock_set_nodelay(sock->sk);
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * Make sock->ops->connect() function return in specified time,
> @@ -1176,7 +1174,6 @@ static int sctp_listen_for_all(void)
>  	struct socket *sock = NULL;
>  	int result = -EINVAL;
>  	struct connection *con = nodeid2con(0, GFP_NOFS);
> -	int one = 1;
>  
>  	if (!con)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
> @@ -1191,10 +1188,7 @@ static int sctp_listen_for_all(void)
>  	}
>  
>  	sock_set_rcvbuf(sock->sk, NEEDED_RMEM);
> -	result = kernel_setsockopt(sock, SOL_SCTP, SCTP_NODELAY, (char *)&one,
> -				   sizeof(one));
> -	if (result < 0)
> -		log_print("Could not set SCTP NODELAY error %d\n", result);
> +	sctp_sock_set_nodelay(sock->sk);
>  
>  	write_lock_bh(&sock->sk->sk_callback_lock);
>  	/* Init con struct */
> diff --git a/include/net/sctp/sctp.h b/include/net/sctp/sctp.h
> index 3ab5c6bbb90bd..f8bcb75bb0448 100644
> --- a/include/net/sctp/sctp.h
> +++ b/include/net/sctp/sctp.h
> @@ -615,4 +615,11 @@ static inline bool sctp_newsk_ready(const struct sock *sk)
>  	return sock_flag(sk, SOCK_DEAD) || sk->sk_socket;
>  }
>  
> +static inline void sctp_sock_set_nodelay(struct sock *sk)
> +{
> +	lock_sock(sk);
> +	sctp_sk(sk)->nodelay = true;
> +	release_sock(sk);
> +}
> +
>  #endif /* __net_sctp_h__ */
> -- 
> 2.26.2
>