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Commit 8edf0864 authored by Florian Westphal's avatar Florian Westphal Committed by Jakub Kicinski
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mptcp: rework poll+nospace handling



MPTCP maintains a status bit, MPTCP_SEND_SPACE, that is set when at
least one subflow and the mptcp socket itself are writeable.

mptcp_poll returns EPOLLOUT if the bit is set.

mptcp_sendmsg makes sure MPTCP_SEND_SPACE gets cleared when last write
has used up all subflows or the mptcp socket wmem.

This reworks nospace handling as follows:

MPTCP_SEND_SPACE is replaced with MPTCP_NOSPACE, i.e. inverted meaning.
This bit is set when the mptcp socket is not writeable.
The mptcp-level ack path schedule will then schedule the mptcp worker
to allow it to free already-acked data (and reduce wmem usage).

This will then wake userspace processes that wait for a POLLOUT event.

sendmsg will set MPTCP_NOSPACE only when it has to wait for more
wmem (blocking I/O case).

poll path will set MPTCP_NOSPACE in case the mptcp socket is
not writeable.

Normal tcp-level notification (SOCK_NOSPACE) is only enabled
in case the subflow socket has no available wmem.

Signed-off-by: default avatarFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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