cvs commit: src/sys/kern uipc_socket.c src/sys/netinet udp_usrreq.c src/sys/sys socketvar.h

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Robert Watson wrote:

> rwatson     2008-07-02 23:23:27 UTC
>
>  FreeBSD src repository
>
>  Modified files:
>    sys/kern             uipc_socket.c
>    sys/netinet          udp_usrreq.c
>    sys/sys              socketvar.h
>  Log:
>  SVN rev 180198 on 2008-07-02 23:23:27Z by rwatson
>
>  Add soreceive_dgram(9), an optimized socket receive function for use by
>  datagram-only protocols, such as UDP.  This version removes use of
>  sblock(), which is not required due to an inability to interlace data
>  improperly with datagrams, as well as avoiding some of the larger loops
>  and state management that don't apply on datagram sockets.
>
>  This is experimental code, so hook it up only for UDPv4 for testing; if

Out of curiosity could one hook it up for v6 as well or is there code
missing (haven't read the diff yet). There might be people who would
want to test experimental v6 paths as well if possible...


>  there are problems we may need to revise it or turn it off by default,
>  but it offers *significant* performance improvements for threaded UDP
>  applications such as BIND9, nsd, and memcached using UDP.
>
>  Tested by:      kris, ps
>
>  Revision  Changes    Path
>  1.311     +234 -0    src/sys/kern/uipc_socket.c
>  1.224     +1 -0      src/sys/netinet/udp_usrreq.c
>  1.165     +3 -0      src/sys/sys/socketvar.h
>

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