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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/index.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/msg_zerocopy.rst | 4 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/index.rst b/Documentation/networking/index.rst index 66e620866245..7d4b15977d61 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/index.rst @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Contents: batman-adv kapi z8530book + msg_zerocopy .. only:: subproject @@ -16,4 +17,3 @@ Contents: ======= * :ref:`genindex` - diff --git a/Documentation/networking/msg_zerocopy.rst b/Documentation/networking/msg_zerocopy.rst index 77f6d7e25cfd..291a01264967 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/msg_zerocopy.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/msg_zerocopy.rst @@ -72,6 +72,10 @@ this flag, a process must first signal intent by setting a socket option: if (setsockopt(fd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_ZEROCOPY, &one, sizeof(one))) error(1, errno, "setsockopt zerocopy"); +Setting the socket option only works when the socket is in its initial +(TCP_CLOSED) state. Trying to set the option for a socket returned by accept(), +for example, will lead to an EBUSY error. In this case, the option should be set +to the listening socket and it will be inherited by the accepted sockets. Transmission ------------ |