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authorJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>2012-09-18 16:20:35 -0700
committerSteve French <smfrench@gmail.com>2012-09-24 21:46:31 -0500
commitb8eed28375a43e1c9aaa9d15af2a052aae0d0725 (patch)
treee63b713d5ae69afee73bf40487e5f067f2a66eb9 /fs
parent6f49f46b187df34539f1e5df2469b8a541897700 (diff)
cifs: cork the socket before a send and uncork it afterward
We want to send SMBs as "atomically" as possible. Prior to sending any data on the socket, cork it to make sure that no non-full frames go out. Afterward, uncork it to make sure all of the data gets pushed out to the wire. Note that this more or less renders the socket=TCP_NODELAY mount option obsolete. When TCP_CORK and TCP_NODELAY are used on the same socket, TCP_NODELAY is essentially ignored. Acked-by: Pavel Shilovsky <pshilovsky@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/cifs/connect.c4
-rw-r--r--fs/cifs/transport.c12
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/cifs/connect.c b/fs/cifs/connect.c
index 549409b1c77..5210bc82b1d 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/connect.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c
@@ -1680,6 +1680,10 @@ cifs_parse_mount_options(const char *mountdata, const char *devname,
if (string == NULL)
goto out_nomem;
+ /*
+ * FIXME: since we now cork/uncork the socket while
+ * sending, should we deprecate this option?
+ */
if (strnicmp(string, "TCP_NODELAY", 11) == 0)
vol->sockopt_tcp_nodelay = 1;
break;
diff --git a/fs/cifs/transport.c b/fs/cifs/transport.c
index 766307b725b..8ff4c5f3670 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/transport.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/transport.c
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
#include <linux/net.h>
#include <linux/delay.h>
#include <linux/freezer.h>
+#include <linux/tcp.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/processor.h>
#include <linux/mempool.h>
@@ -247,12 +248,23 @@ smb_send_rqst(struct TCP_Server_Info *server, struct smb_rqst *rqst)
int n_vec = rqst->rq_nvec;
unsigned int smb_buf_length = get_rfc1002_length(iov[0].iov_base);
size_t total_len;
+ struct socket *ssocket = server->ssocket;
+ int val = 1;
cFYI(1, "Sending smb: smb_len=%u", smb_buf_length);
dump_smb(iov[0].iov_base, iov[0].iov_len);
+ /* cork the socket */
+ kernel_setsockopt(ssocket, SOL_TCP, TCP_CORK,
+ (char *)&val, sizeof(val));
+
rc = smb_send_kvec(server, iov, n_vec, &total_len);
+ /* uncork it */
+ val = 0;
+ kernel_setsockopt(ssocket, SOL_TCP, TCP_CORK,
+ (char *)&val, sizeof(val));
+
if ((total_len > 0) && (total_len != smb_buf_length + 4)) {
cFYI(1, "partial send (wanted=%u sent=%zu): terminating "
"session", smb_buf_length + 4, total_len);