AIO write requests for a TOE socket on a Chelsio T4+ adapter can now
DMA directly from the user-supplied buffer. This is implemented by
wiring the pages backing the user-supplied buffer and queueing special
mbufs backed by raw VM pages to the socket buffer. The TOE code
recognizes these special mbufs and builds a sglist from the VM page
array associated with the mbuf when queueing a work request to the TOE.
Because these mbufs do not have an associated virtual address, m_data
is not valid. Thus, the AIO handler does not invoke sosend() directly
for these mbufs but instead inlines portions of sosend_generic() and
tcp_usr_send().
An aiotx_buffer structure is used to describe the user buffer (e.g.
it holds the array of VM pages and a reference to the AIO job). The
special mbufs reference this structure via m_ext. Note that a single
job might be split across multiple mbufs (e.g. if it is larger than
the socket buffer size). The 'ext_arg2' member of each mbuf gives an
offset relative to the backing aiotx_buffer. The AIO job associated
with an aiotx_buffer structure is completed when the last reference to
the structure is released.
Zero-copy aio_write()'s for connections associated with a given
adapter can be enabled/disabled at runtime via the
'dev.t[45]nex.N.toe.tx_zcopy' sysctl.
MFC after: 1 month
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: Chelsio Communications
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