Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] udp: UDP socket send queue repair

From: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2021 09:22:20 -0700

On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 01:00:12PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> From: Bui Quang Minh
> > Sent: 13 August 2021 12:08
> ...
> > The reason we want to dump the packet in send queue is to make to state of the
> > application consistent. The scenario is that when an application sends UDP
> > packets via UDP_CORK socket or with MSG_MORE, CRIU comes and checkpoints the
> > application. If we drop the data in send queue, when application restores, it
> > sends some more data then turns off the cork and actually sends a packet. The
> > receiving side may get that packet but it's unusual that the first part of that
> > packet is missing because we drop it. So we try to solve this problem with some
> > help from the Linux kernel.
> 
> Patient: It hurts if I do xxx.
> Doctor: Don't do xxx then.
> 
> It has to be more efficient to buffer partial UDP packets
> in userspace and only send when all the packet is available.

You are right. It can be more efficient, but we don't have controls over
user-space processes, and they can do whatever the kernel allows them to
do.

> 
> 	David
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