Re: [RFC] [TCP 1/3] tcp: Add MSG_NEW_PACKET flag to indicatepreferable packet boundaries

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Fri, 2012-06-29 at 19:15 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-06-29 at 17:38 +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> 
> > The primary use case is fast Gigabit (10 or more) Ethernet connections
> > with jumbo frames and switches that support them.  There, frames will go
> > through unchanged and you can zero-copy receive all the time.
> > 
> > Not sure how well the approach scales to other kinds of connections; it
> > may work often enough to be worth it.  When things get distorted between
> > the sender and the receiver and tcp_recvbio() fails, the data can still
> > be copied out of the socket as before.
> 
> If you have a packet loss, receiver can and will coalesce frames.

That's alright as long as we'll get "back to normal" eventually; the
only effect will be that we'll copy data out of the socket receive
buffers for a while.  There will be extremely little packet loss on the
kinds of networks that we want to use this on.

Thanks,
Andreas

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