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@@ -280,6 +280,18 @@ Interaction with the user of the RxRPC socket:
nominated by a socket option.
+Notes on sendmsg:
+
+ (*) MSG_WAITALL can be set to tell sendmsg to ignore signals if the peer is
+ making progress at accepting packets within a reasonable time such that we
+ manage to queue up all the data for transmission. This requires the
+ client to accept at least one packet per 2*RTT time period.
+
+ If this isn't set, sendmsg() will return immediately, either returning
+ EINTR/ERESTARTSYS if nothing was consumed or returning the amount of data
+ consumed.
+
+
Notes on recvmsg:
(*) If there's a sequence of data messages belonging to a particular call on