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SubjectRe: behavior of recvmmsg() on blocking sockets
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On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 1:34 PM,  <drepper@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 11:28, Brandon Black <blblack@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I still think having a "block until at least one packet arrives" mode
>> for recvmmsg() makes sense though.
>
> I agree.  This is the mode I've seen people asking for.  They want the call
> to return as quickly as possible if there is data and then with as many
> messages as possible.  A MSG_WAITFORONE flag would do the trick nicely.

This patch might be woefully inadequate, as I'm not intimately
familiar with the rest of the Linux socket code, and I'm not sure what
the impact is of (a) adding that new flag, which is the first beyond
the 16-bit space, and (b) having that extra undefined flag present
during the underlying recvmsg() calls, but this patch Works For Me for
my isolated case. Thoughts? (hoping gmail doesn't mangle this)

[blblack@xpc kernels]$ diff -u linux-2.6.33-orig/net/socket.c
linux-2.6.33/net/socket.c
--- linux-2.6.33-orig/net/socket.c 2010-02-24 12:52:17.000000000 -0600
+++ linux-2.6.33/net/socket.c 2010-03-24 18:10:37.156234986 -0500
@@ -2133,7 +2133,10 @@

if (err)
break;
- ++datagrams;
+
+ /* MSG_WAITFORONE turns on MSG_DONTWAIT after one packet */
+ if (!datagrams++ && flags & MSG_WAITFORONE)
+ flags |= MSG_DONTWAIT;

if (timeout) {
ktime_get_ts(timeout);
[blblack@xpc kernels]$ diff -u
linux-2.6.33-orig/include/linux/socket.h
linux-2.6.33/include/linux/socket.h
--- linux-2.6.33-orig/include/linux/socket.h 2010-02-24 12:52:17.000000000 -0600
+++ linux-2.6.33/include/linux/socket.h 2010-03-24 17:35:14.009266280 -0500
@@ -255,6 +255,7 @@
#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
--
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