From 2fdd18118dad86bf5e7880d8d02ea27be23e3671 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Rapoport Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 08:50:17 +0200 Subject: docs-rst: networking: wire up msg_zerocopy Fix the following 'make htmldocs' complaint: Documentation/networking/msg_zerocopy.rst:: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree. Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Documentation/networking/index.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/networking/index.rst b/Documentation/networking/index.rst index 66e620866245..7d4b15977d61 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/index.rst @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Contents: batman-adv kapi z8530book + msg_zerocopy .. only:: subproject @@ -16,4 +17,3 @@ Contents: ======= * :ref:`genindex` - -- cgit v1.2.3 From af60d61fa846725566f4a876ae04f891bdff1c7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kornilios Kourtis Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 09:52:22 +0100 Subject: doc: clarification about setting SO_ZEROCOPY Signed-off-by: Kornilios Kourtis Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Documentation/networking/msg_zerocopy.rst | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/networking/msg_zerocopy.rst b/Documentation/networking/msg_zerocopy.rst index 77f6d7e25cfd..291a01264967 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/msg_zerocopy.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/msg_zerocopy.rst @@ -72,6 +72,10 @@ this flag, a process must first signal intent by setting a socket option: if (setsockopt(fd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_ZEROCOPY, &one, sizeof(one))) error(1, errno, "setsockopt zerocopy"); +Setting the socket option only works when the socket is in its initial +(TCP_CLOSED) state. Trying to set the option for a socket returned by accept(), +for example, will lead to an EBUSY error. In this case, the option should be set +to the listening socket and it will be inherited by the accepted sockets. Transmission ------------ -- cgit v1.2.3