net: do_tcp_sendpages flag to avoid SKBTX_SHARED_FRAG
When calling do_tcp_sendpages() from in kernel and we know the data
has no references from user side we can omit SKBTX_SHARED_FRAG flag.
This patch adds an internal flag, NO_SKBTX_SHARED_FRAG that can be used
to omit setting SKBTX_SHARED_FRAG.
The flag is not exposed to userspace because the sendpage call from
the splice logic masks out all bits except MSG_MORE.
Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
index fb350f7..f90ec24 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
@@ -994,7 +994,9 @@ ssize_t do_tcp_sendpages(struct sock *sk, struct page *page, int offset,
get_page(page);
skb_fill_page_desc(skb, i, page, offset, copy);
}
- skb_shinfo(skb)->tx_flags |= SKBTX_SHARED_FRAG;
+
+ if (!(flags & MSG_NO_SHARED_FRAGS))
+ skb_shinfo(skb)->tx_flags |= SKBTX_SHARED_FRAG;
skb->len += copy;
skb->data_len += copy;