Re: [PATCH] Add MSG_WAITFORONE flag to recvmmsg

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Fri Mar 26 2010 - 18:44:44 EST


Le vendredi 26 mars 2010 Ã 17:35 -0500, Brandon L Black a Ãcrit :
> From: Brandon L Black <blblack@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Add new flag MSG_WAITFORONE for the recvmmsg() syscall.
> When this flag is specified for a blocking socket, recvmmsg()
> will only block until at least 1 packet is available. The
> default behavior is to block until all vlen packets are
> available. This flag has no effect on non-blocking sockets
> or when used in combination with MSG_DONTWAIT.
>
> Signed-off-by: Brandon L Black <blblack@xxxxxxxxx>


>
> ---
> diff --git a/include/linux/socket.h b/include/linux/socket.h
> index 7b3aae2..354cc56 100644
> --- a/include/linux/socket.h
> +++ b/include/linux/socket.h
> @@ -255,6 +255,7 @@ struct ucred {
> #define MSG_ERRQUEUE 0x2000 /* Fetch message from error queue */
> #define MSG_NOSIGNAL 0x4000 /* Do not generate SIGPIPE */
> #define MSG_MORE 0x8000 /* Sender will send more */
> +#define MSG_WAITFORONE 0x10000 /* recvmmsg(): block until 1+ packets avail */
>
> #define MSG_EOF MSG_FIN
>
> diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c
> index 769c386..33304d1 100644
> --- a/net/socket.c
> +++ b/net/socket.c
> @@ -2133,7 +2133,10 @@ int __sys_recvmmsg(int fd, struct mmsghdr __user *mmsg, unsigned int vlen,
>
> if (err)
> break;
> - ++datagrams;
> +
> + /* MSG_WAITFORONE turns on MSG_DONTWAIT after one packet */
> + if (!datagrams++ && (flags & MSG_WAITFORONE))
> + flags |= MSG_DONTWAIT;


Hmmm, no need to test !datagram, just do :

++datagrams;

if (flags & MSG_WAITFORONE)
flags |= MSG_DONTWAIT;



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