On 09/20/15 at 03:29pm, Tom Herbert wrote:
> This module implement the Kernel Connection Multiplexor.
>
> Kernel Connection Multiplexor (KCM) is a facility that provides a
> message based interface over TCP for generic application protocols.
> With KCM an application can efficiently send and receive application
> protocol messages over TCP using datagram sockets.
>
> For more information see the included Documentation/networking/kcm.txt
>
> Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <t...@herbertland.com>
This looks great!
> +Cloning KCM sockets
> +-------------------
> +
> +After the first KCM socket is created using the socket call as described
> +above, additional sockets for the multiplexor can be created by cloning
> +a KCM socket. This is accomplished by calling accept on the KCM socket:
> +
> + newkcmfd = accept(kcmfd, NULL, 0)
This looks a bit ugly.
> + ioctl(kcmfd, SIOCKCMATTACH, &info);
Use setsockopt() instead?
> +/* Process a new message. If there is no KCM socket waiting for a message
> + * hold it in the psock. Returns true if message is held this way, false
> + * otherwise.
> + */
> +static bool new_rx_msg(struct kcm_psock *psock, struct sk_buff *head)
> +{
> + struct kcm_mux *mux = psock->mux;
> + struct kcm_sock *kcm = NULL;
> + struct sock *sk;
> +
> + spin_lock_bh(&mux->lock);
> +
> + if (WARN_ON(psock->ready_rx_msg)) {
> + spin_unlock_bh(&mux->lock);
> + kfree_skb(head);
> + return false;
> + }
> +
> + if (list_empty(&mux->kcm_rx_waiters)) {
> + psock->ready_rx_msg = head;
> +
> + list_add_tail(&psock->psock_ready_list,
> + &mux->psocks_ready);
> +
> + spin_unlock_bh(&mux->lock);
> + return true;
> + }
> +
> + kcm = list_first_entry(&mux->kcm_rx_waiters,
> + struct kcm_sock, wait_rx_list);
Per CPU list of waiting sockets?
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