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net: add scheduling point in recvmmsg/sendmmsg

Applications often have to reduce number of datagrams
they receive or send per system call to avoid starvation problems.

Really the kernel should take care of this by using cond_resched(),
so that applications can experiment bigger batch sizes.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Eric Dumazet 9 years ago
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      net/socket.c

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net/socket.c

@@ -2041,6 +2041,7 @@ int __sys_sendmmsg(int fd, struct mmsghdr __user *mmsg, unsigned int vlen,
 		if (err)
 		if (err)
 			break;
 			break;
 		++datagrams;
 		++datagrams;
+		cond_resched();
 	}
 	}
 
 
 	fput_light(sock->file, fput_needed);
 	fput_light(sock->file, fput_needed);
@@ -2236,6 +2237,7 @@ int __sys_recvmmsg(int fd, struct mmsghdr __user *mmsg, unsigned int vlen,
 		/* Out of band data, return right away */
 		/* Out of band data, return right away */
 		if (msg_sys.msg_flags & MSG_OOB)
 		if (msg_sys.msg_flags & MSG_OOB)
 			break;
 			break;
+		cond_resched();
 	}
 	}
 
 
 out_put:
 out_put: