netdev - [PATCH 0/6] tcp: support preloading data on a listening socket

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Message-ID: <cover.1747409911.git.jgh@exim.org>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2025 16:54:58 +0100
From: Jeremy Harris <jgh@...m.org>
To: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
	edumazet@...gle.com,
	ncardwell@...gle.com,
	Jeremy Harris <jgh@...m.org>
Subject: [PATCH 0/6] tcp: support preloading data on a listening socket

Support write to a listen TCP socket, for immediate
transmission on passive connection establishments.

On a normal connection transmission is triggered by the receipt of
the 3rd-ack. On a fastopen (with accepted cookie) connection the data
is sent in the synack packet.

The data preload is done using a sendmsg with a newly-defined flag
(MSG_PRELOAD); the amount of data limited to a single linear sk_buff.
Note that this definition is the last-but-two bit available if "int"
is 32 bits.

Testing:

A) packetdrill scripts for
   - normal non-TFO
   - normal TFO
   - synack lost
   - 3rd-ack acks only the SYN
   - 3rd-ack acks partial data
     (NB: packetdrill can only check the data size, not actual content)

B) Application use, running the application testsuite
   and manual check of specific cases via packet capture

C) Daily-driver laptop use (not expected to trigger the feature;
   only regression-test)

Jeremy Harris (6):
  tcp: support writing to a socket in listening state
  tcp: copy write-data from listen socket to accept child socket
  tcp: fastopen: add write-data to fastopen synack packet
  tcp: transmit any pending data on receipt of 3rd-ack
  tcp: fastopen: retransmit data when only the SYN of a synack-with-data
    is acked
  tcp: fastopen: extend retransmit-queue trimming to handle linear
    sk_buff

 include/linux/socket.h                        |  1 +
 net/ipv4/tcp.c                                | 17 ++++--
 net/ipv4/tcp_fastopen.c                       |  3 +-
 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c                          | 15 ++++-
 net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c                           |  4 +-
 net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c                      | 58 +++++++++++++++++--
 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c                         | 50 ++++++++++++++--
 .../perf/trace/beauty/include/linux/socket.h  |  1 +
 tools/perf/trace/beauty/msg_flags.c           |  3 +
 9 files changed, 135 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)


base-commit: 2da35e4b4df99d3dd29bacf0c054e6988013d4ec
-- 
2.49.0