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    sock: add MSG_ZEROCOPY · 52267790
    Willem de Bruijn authored
    
    
    The kernel supports zerocopy sendmsg in virtio and tap. Expand the
    infrastructure to support other socket types. Introduce a completion
    notification channel over the socket error queue. Notifications are
    returned with ee_origin SO_EE_ORIGIN_ZEROCOPY. ee_errno is 0 to avoid
    blocking the send/recv path on receiving notifications.
    
    Add reference counting, to support the skb split, merge, resize and
    clone operations possible with SOCK_STREAM and other socket types.
    
    The patch does not yet modify any datapaths.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarWillem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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