[RFC PATCH 26/28] dlm: Use sendmsg(MSG_SPLICE_PAGES) rather than sendpage

From: David Howells
Date: Thu Mar 16 2023 - 11:31:02 EST


When transmitting data, call down a layer using a single sendmsg with
MSG_SPLICE_PAGES to indicate that content should be spliced rather using
sendpage. This allows ->sendpage() to be replaced by something that can
handle multiple multipage folios in a single transaction.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Christine Caulfield <ccaulfie@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: David Teigland <teigland@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
cc: cluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx
cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
fs/dlm/lowcomms.c | 10 +++++++---
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/dlm/lowcomms.c b/fs/dlm/lowcomms.c
index a9b14f81d655..9c0c691b6106 100644
--- a/fs/dlm/lowcomms.c
+++ b/fs/dlm/lowcomms.c
@@ -1394,8 +1394,11 @@ int dlm_lowcomms_resend_msg(struct dlm_msg *msg)
/* Send a message */
static int send_to_sock(struct connection *con)
{
- const int msg_flags = MSG_DONTWAIT | MSG_NOSIGNAL;
struct writequeue_entry *e;
+ struct bio_vec bvec;
+ struct msghdr msg = {
+ .msg_flags = MSG_SPLICE_PAGES | MSG_DONTWAIT | MSG_NOSIGNAL,
+ };
int len, offset, ret;

spin_lock_bh(&con->writequeue_lock);
@@ -1411,8 +1414,9 @@ static int send_to_sock(struct connection *con)
WARN_ON_ONCE(len == 0 && e->users == 0);
spin_unlock_bh(&con->writequeue_lock);

- ret = kernel_sendpage(con->sock, e->page, offset, len,
- msg_flags);
+ bvec_set_page(&bvec, e->page, len, offset);
+ iov_iter_bvec(&msg.msg_iter, ITER_SOURCE, &bvec, 1, len);
+ ret = sock_sendmsg(con->sock, &msg);
trace_dlm_send(con->nodeid, ret);
if (ret == -EAGAIN || ret == 0) {
lock_sock(con->sock->sk);