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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2023-06-23 23:55:12 +0100
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2023-06-24 15:50:13 -0700
commitdc97391e661009eab46783030d2404c9b6e6f2e7 (patch)
treedbfd7c2bff27341b72d5218dde0849d913382bdb /Documentation/networking
parente52828cc0109f511bba1dfb41292833c2fd3b6e6 (diff)
sock: Remove ->sendpage*() in favour of sendmsg(MSG_SPLICE_PAGES)
Remove ->sendpage() and ->sendpage_locked(). sendmsg() with MSG_SPLICE_PAGES should be used instead. This allows multiple pages and multipage folios to be passed through. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de> # for net/can cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org cc: mptcp@lists.linux.dev cc: rds-devel@oss.oracle.com cc: tipc-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230623225513.2732256-16-dhowells@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/scaling.rst b/Documentation/networking/scaling.rst
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@@ -269,8 +269,8 @@ a single application thread handles flows with many different flow hashes.
rps_sock_flow_table is a global flow table that contains the *desired* CPU
for flows: the CPU that is currently processing the flow in userspace.
Each table value is a CPU index that is updated during calls to recvmsg
-and sendmsg (specifically, inet_recvmsg(), inet_sendmsg(), inet_sendpage()
-and tcp_splice_read()).
+and sendmsg (specifically, inet_recvmsg(), inet_sendmsg() and
+tcp_splice_read()).
When the scheduler moves a thread to a new CPU while it has outstanding
receive packets on the old CPU, packets may arrive out of order. To