sctp: Send user messages to the lower layer as one

Currenlty, sctp breaks up user messages into fragments and
sends each fragment to the lower layer by itself.  This means
that for each fragment we go all the way down the stack
and back up.  This also discourages bundling of multiple
fragments when they can fit into a sigle packet (ex: due
to user setting a low fragmentation threashold).

We introduce a new command SCTP_CMD_SND_MSG and hand the
whole message down state machine.  The state machine and
the side-effect parser will cork the queue, add all chunks
from the message to the queue, and then un-cork the queue
thus causing the chunks to get transmitted.

Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c b/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c
index 86426aac160..238adf7978e 100644
--- a/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c
+++ b/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c
@@ -931,6 +931,27 @@ static void sctp_cmd_t1_timer_update(struct sctp_association *asoc,
 
 }
 
+/* Send the whole message, chunk by chunk, to the outqueue.
+ * This way the whole message is queued up and bundling if
+ * encouraged for small fragments.
+ */
+static int sctp_cmd_send_msg(struct sctp_association *asoc,
+				struct sctp_datamsg *msg)
+{
+	struct sctp_chunk *chunk;
+	int error = 0;
+
+	list_for_each_entry(chunk, &msg->chunks, frag_list) {
+		error = sctp_outq_tail(&asoc->outqueue, chunk);
+		if (error)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return error;
+}
+
+
+
 /* These three macros allow us to pull the debugging code out of the
  * main flow of sctp_do_sm() to keep attention focused on the real
  * functionality there.
@@ -1575,7 +1596,13 @@ static int sctp_cmd_interpreter(sctp_event_t event_type,
 		case SCTP_CMD_UPDATE_INITTAG:
 			asoc->peer.i.init_tag = cmd->obj.u32;
 			break;
-
+		case SCTP_CMD_SEND_MSG:
+			if (!asoc->outqueue.cork) {
+				sctp_outq_cork(&asoc->outqueue);
+				local_cork = 1;
+			}
+			error = sctp_cmd_send_msg(asoc, cmd->obj.msg);
+			break;
 		default:
 			printk(KERN_WARNING "Impossible command: %u, %p\n",
 			       cmd->verb, cmd->obj.ptr);