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-rw-r--r--lib/libc/sys/getsockopt.221
-rw-r--r--share/man/man9/sosplice.920
2 files changed, 31 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/getsockopt.2 b/lib/libc/sys/getsockopt.2
index ecf38e1e6bd..9de91b68e69 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/getsockopt.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/getsockopt.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: getsockopt.2,v 1.32 2011/05/02 20:18:17 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: getsockopt.2,v 1.33 2011/07/04 00:34:43 mikeb Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: getsockopt.2,v 1.7 1995/02/27 12:33:29 cgd Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\"
.\" @(#)getsockopt.2 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: May 2 2011 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: July 4 2011 $
.Dt GETSOCKOPT 2
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -362,15 +362,19 @@ In the second form,
is a
.Vt struct splice
with the drain socket in
-.Va sp_fd
-and a positive maximum number of bytes or 0 in
-.Va sp_max .
+.Va sp_fd ,
+a positive maximum number of bytes or 0 in
+.Va sp_max
+and an idle timeout
+.Va sp_idle
+in a form of a
+.Vt struct timeval .
If \-1 is given as drain socket, the source socket
.Fa s
gets unspliced.
Otherwise the spliced data transfer continues within the kernel
until the optional maximum is reached, one of the connections
-terminates or an error occurs.
+terminates, idle timeout expires or an error occurs.
A successful
.Xr select 2 ,
.Xr poll 2 ,
@@ -383,6 +387,11 @@ is available.
The error status can be examined with
.Dv SO_ERROR
at the source socket.
+.Er ETIMEDOUT
+error is set if there was no data transfered between two sockets
+during the
+.Va sp_idle
+period of time.
Note that if a maximum is given, it is only guaranteed that no more
bytes are transferred.
A short splice can happen but then a second call to splice will
diff --git a/share/man/man9/sosplice.9 b/share/man/man9/sosplice.9
index 7f865f479fd..c916b2bdaa5 100644
--- a/share/man/man9/sosplice.9
+++ b/share/man/man9/sosplice.9
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: sosplice.9,v 1.2 2011/03/12 18:31:41 bluhm Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: sosplice.9,v 1.3 2011/07/04 00:34:43 mikeb Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2011 Alexander Bluhm <bluhm@openbsd.org>
.\"
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: March 12 2011 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: July 4 2011 $
.Dt SOSPLICE 9
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
.Nd splice two sockets for zero-copy data transfer
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Ft int
-.Fn sosplice "struct socket *so" "int fd" "off_t max"
+.Fn sosplice "struct socket *so" "int fd" "off_t max" "struct timeval *tv"
.Ft int
.Fn somove "struct socket *so" "int wait"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
@@ -41,6 +41,12 @@ is negative, an existing splicing gets dissolved.
If
.Fa max
is positive, at most that many bytes will get transferred.
+If
+.Fa tv
+is not NULL, a
+.Xr timeout 9
+is scheduled to dissolve splicing in the case when no data can be
+transferred for the specified period of time.
Socket splicing can be invoked from user-land via the
.Xr setsockopt 2
system-call at the
@@ -138,6 +144,11 @@ If that fails and the drain socket cannot send anymore, an
.Er EPIPE
error is set on the source socket.
.Pp
+If the idle timeout was specified and no data was transferred
+for that period of time, splicing gets dissolved and an
+.Er ETIMEDOUT
+error is set on the source socket.
+.Pp
Finally the socket splicing gets dissolved if the source socket
cannot receive anymore and its receive buffer is empty; or if the
drain socket cannot send anymore; or if the maximum has been reached;
@@ -200,7 +211,8 @@ locked.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr setsockopt 2 ,
-.Xr options 4
+.Xr options 4 ,
+.Xr timeout 9
.Sh HISTORY
Socket splicing first appeared in
.Ox 4.9 .