13 Oct, 2009

1 commit

  • Create a new socket level option to report number of queue overflows

    Recently I augmented the AF_PACKET protocol to report the number of frames lost
    on the socket receive queue between any two enqueued frames. This value was
    exported via a SOL_PACKET level cmsg. AFter I completed that work it was
    requested that this feature be generalized so that any datagram oriented socket
    could make use of this option. As such I've created this patch, It creates a
    new SOL_SOCKET level option called SO_RXQ_OVFL, which when enabled exports a
    SOL_SOCKET level cmsg that reports the nubmer of times the sk_receive_queue
    overflowed between any two given frames. It also augments the AF_PACKET
    protocol to take advantage of this new feature (as it previously did not touch
    sk->sk_drops, which this patch uses to record the overflow count). Tested
    successfully by me.

    Notes:

    1) Unlike my previous patch, this patch simply records the sk_drops value, which
    is not a number of drops between packets, but rather a total number of drops.
    Deltas must be computed in user space.

    2) While this patch currently works with datagram oriented protocols, it will
    also be accepted by non-datagram oriented protocols. I'm not sure if thats
    agreeable to everyone, but my argument in favor of doing so is that, for those
    protocols which aren't applicable to this option, sk_drops will always be zero,
    and reporting no drops on a receive queue that isn't used for those
    non-participating protocols seems reasonable to me. This also saves us having
    to code in a per-protocol opt in mechanism.

    3) This applies cleanly to net-next assuming that commit
    977750076d98c7ff6cbda51858bb5a5894a9d9ab (my af packet cmsg patch) is reverted

    Signed-off-by: Neil Horman
    Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Neil Horman
     

06 Aug, 2009

2 commits

  • This sockopt goes in line with SO_TYPE and SO_PROTOCOL. It makes it
    possible for userspace programs to pass around file descriptors — I
    am referring to arguments-to-functions, but it may even work for the
    fd passing over UNIX sockets — without needing to also pass the
    auxiliary information (PF_INET6/IPPROTO_TCP).

    Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Jan Engelhardt
     
  • Similar to SO_TYPE returning the socket type, SO_PROTOCOL allows to
    retrieve the protocol used with a given socket.

    I am not quite sure why we have that-many copies of socket.h, and why
    the values are not the same on all arches either, but for where hex
    numbers dominate, I use 0x1029 for SO_PROTOCOL as that seems to be
    the next free unused number across a bunch of operating systems, or
    so Google results make me want to believe. SO_PROTOCOL for others
    just uses the next free Linux number, 38.

    Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Jan Engelhardt
     

12 Jun, 2009

1 commit

  • These header files are typically copied from an existing architecture
    into any new one, slightly modified and then remain untouched until
    the end of time in the name of ABI stability.

    To make it easier for future architectures, provide a sane generic
    version here. In cases where multiple architectures already use
    identical code, I used the most common version. In cases like
    stat.h that are more or less broken everywhere, I provide a
    version that is meant to be ideal for new architectures.

    Signed-off-by: Remis Lima Baima
    Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

    Arnd Bergmann