From 228e548e602061b08ee8e8966f567c12aa079682 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anton Blanchard Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 20:21:35 +0000 Subject: net: Add sendmmsg socket system call This patch adds a multiple message send syscall and is the send version of the existing recvmmsg syscall. This is heavily based on the patch by Arnaldo that added recvmmsg. I wrote a microbenchmark to test the performance gains of using this new syscall: http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/sendmmsg_test.c The test was run on a ppc64 box with a 10 Gbit network card. The benchmark can send both UDP and RAW ethernet packets. 64B UDP batch pkts/sec 1 804570 2 872800 (+ 8 %) 4 916556 (+14 %) 8 939712 (+17 %) 16 952688 (+18 %) 32 956448 (+19 %) 64 964800 (+20 %) 64B raw socket batch pkts/sec 1 1201449 2 1350028 (+12 %) 4 1461416 (+22 %) 8 1513080 (+26 %) 16 1541216 (+28 %) 32 1553440 (+29 %) 64 1557888 (+30 %) We see a 20% improvement in throughput on UDP send and 30% on raw socket send. [ Add sparc syscall entries. -DaveM ] Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/linux/socket.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/socket.h') diff --git a/include/linux/socket.h b/include/linux/socket.h index d2b5e982f079..4ef98e422fde 100644 --- a/include/linux/socket.h +++ b/include/linux/socket.h @@ -333,5 +333,7 @@ struct timespec; extern int __sys_recvmmsg(int fd, struct mmsghdr __user *mmsg, unsigned int vlen, unsigned int flags, struct timespec *timeout); +extern int __sys_sendmmsg(int fd, struct mmsghdr __user *mmsg, + unsigned int vlen, unsigned int flags); #endif /* not kernel and not glibc */ #endif /* _LINUX_SOCKET_H */ -- cgit v1.2.3