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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2016-01-08 08:37:20 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-01-10 22:56:29 -0500
commita78cb84c62c427807d917c5aa8797740f00b0bbe (patch)
tree99dbd793f182a509ed68d5542924fe99b9325187
parent3d171f3907329d4b1ce31d5ec9c852c5f0269578 (diff)
downloadlinux-a78cb84c62c427807d917c5aa8797740f00b0bbe.tar.bz2
net: add scheduling point in recvmmsg/sendmmsg
Applications often have to reduce number of datagrams they receive or send per system call to avoid starvation problems. Really the kernel should take care of this by using cond_resched(), so that applications can experiment bigger batch sizes. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r--net/socket.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c
index d730ef9dfbf0..91c2de6f5020 100644
--- a/net/socket.c
+++ b/net/socket.c
@@ -2041,6 +2041,7 @@ int __sys_sendmmsg(int fd, struct mmsghdr __user *mmsg, unsigned int vlen,
if (err)
break;
++datagrams;
+ cond_resched();
}
fput_light(sock->file, fput_needed);
@@ -2236,6 +2237,7 @@ int __sys_recvmmsg(int fd, struct mmsghdr __user *mmsg, unsigned int vlen,
/* Out of band data, return right away */
if (msg_sys.msg_flags & MSG_OOB)
break;
+ cond_resched();
}
out_put: