David S. Miller wrote:
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 22:11:16 +0300
Avi Kivity <[email protected]> wrote:
you need a completion to tell you when your buffer has been sent. you
can use the kiocb parameter to tcp_sendmsg, as it has a completion.
however, tcp_sendmsg does not appear to use it.
in effect, you need tcp aio, but the mainline kernel does not support it
yet.
Or, he could simply not try to reuse the private buffer he is
giving to TCP.
you are describing a memory leak. at some point he must free (or
otherwise reuse) these pages.
theoretically he could peek at the tcp sequence number, but an
event-driven, protocol-agnostic completion seems better to me.
* light goes on *
yes, if he frees the pages immediately after tcp_sendpage, then the
reference count would remain elevated until tcp completes sending these
pages. so the sequence
allocate pages
fill with data
tcp_sendpage()
free pages
should be safe?
(I am still wishing for tcp aio, though)
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