netdev - [RFC PATCH 01/28] net: Declare MSG_SPLICE

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Message-Id: <20230316152618.711970-2-dhowells@redhat.com>
Date:   Thu, 16 Mar 2023 15:25:51 +0000
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>,
        Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 01/28] net: Declare MSG_SPLICE_PAGES internal sendmsg() flag

Declare MSG_SPLICE_PAGES, an internal sendmsg() flag, that hints to a
network protocol that it should splice pages from the source iterator
rather than copying the data if it can.

This is intended as a replacement for the ->sendpage() op, allowing a way
to splice in several multipage folios in one go.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
---
 include/linux/socket.h | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/socket.h b/include/linux/socket.h
index 13c3a237b9c9..a67d02da3c54 100644
--- a/include/linux/socket.h
+++ b/include/linux/socket.h
@@ -327,6 +327,7 @@ struct ucred {
 					  */
 
 #define MSG_ZEROCOPY	0x4000000	/* Use user data in kernel path */
+#define MSG_SPLICE_PAGES 0x8000000	/* Splice the pages from the iterator in sendmsg() */
 #define MSG_FASTOPEN	0x20000000	/* Send data in TCP SYN */
 #define MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC 0x40000000	/* Set close_on_exec for file
 					   descriptor received through