splice, net: Use sendmsg(MSG_SPLICE_PAGES) rather than ->sendpage()

Replace generic_splice_sendpage() + splice_from_pipe + pipe_to_sendpage()
with a net-specific handler, splice_to_socket(), that calls sendmsg() with
MSG_SPLICE_PAGES set instead of calling ->sendpage().

MSG_MORE is used to indicate if the sendmsg() is expected to be followed
with more data.

This allows multiple pipe-buffer pages to be passed in a single call in a
BVEC iterator, allowing the processing to be pushed down to a loop in the
protocol driver.  This helps pave the way for passing multipage folios down
too.

Protocols that haven't been converted to handle MSG_SPLICE_PAGES yet should
just ignore it and do a normal sendmsg() for now - although that may be a
bit slower as it may copy everything.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 133f0640fb2411..df92f4b3d122c9 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -2759,8 +2759,6 @@ extern ssize_t generic_file_splice_read(struct file *, loff_t *,
 		struct pipe_inode_info *, size_t, unsigned int);
 extern ssize_t iter_file_splice_write(struct pipe_inode_info *,
 		struct file *, loff_t *, size_t, unsigned int);
-extern ssize_t generic_splice_sendpage(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
-		struct file *out, loff_t *, size_t len, unsigned int flags);
 extern long do_splice_direct(struct file *in, loff_t *ppos, struct file *out,
 		loff_t *opos, size_t len, unsigned int flags);