tcp-zerocopy: Return inq along with tcp receive zerocopy.

This patchset is intended to reduce the number of extra system calls
imposed by TCP receive zerocopy. For ping-pong RPC style workloads,
this patchset has demonstrated a system call reduction of about 30%
when coupled with userspace changes.

For applications using edge-triggered epoll, returning inq along with
the result of tcp receive zerocopy could remove the need to call
recvmsg()=-EAGAIN after a successful zerocopy. Generally speaking,
since normally we would need to perform a recvmsg() call for every
successful small RPC read via TCP receive zerocopy, returning inq can
reduce the number of system calls performed by approximately half.

Signed-off-by: Arjun Roy <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

Author: arjunroy

include/uapi/linux/tcp.h

@@ -345,5 +345,6 @@ struct tcp_zerocopy_receive {
 	__u64 address;		/* in: address of mapping */
 	__u32 length;		/* in/out: number of bytes to map/mapped */
 	__u32 recv_skip_hint;	/* out: amount of bytes to skip */
+	__u32 inq; /* out: amount of bytes in read queue */
 };
 #endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_TCP_H */

net/ipv4/tcp.c

@@ -3667,13 +3667,26 @@ static int do_tcp_getsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level,
 
 		if (get_user(len, optlen))
 			return -EFAULT;
-		if (len != sizeof(zc))
+		if (len < offsetofend(struct tcp_zerocopy_receive, length))
 			return -EINVAL;
+		if (len > sizeof(zc))
+			len = sizeof(zc);
 		if (copy_from_user(&zc, optval, len))
 			return -EFAULT;
 		lock_sock(sk);
 		err = tcp_zerocopy_receive(sk, &zc);
 		release_sock(sk);
+		switch (len) {
+		case sizeof(zc):
+		case offsetofend(struct tcp_zerocopy_receive, inq):
+			goto zerocopy_rcv_inq;
+		case offsetofend(struct tcp_zerocopy_receive, length):
+		default:
+			goto zerocopy_rcv_out;
+		}
+zerocopy_rcv_inq:
+		zc.inq = tcp_inq_hint(sk);
+zerocopy_rcv_out:
 		if (!err && copy_to_user(optval, &zc, len))
 			err = -EFAULT;
 		return err;