stream (TCP) sockets.
It is functionally identical to generic soreceive() but has a
number stream specific optimizations:
o does only one sockbuf unlock/lock per receive independent of
the length of data to be moved into the uio compared to
soreceive() which unlocks/locks per *mbuf*.
o uses m_mbuftouio() instead of its own copy(out) variant.
o much more compact code flow as a large number of special
cases is removed.
o much improved reability.
It offers significantly reduced CPU usage and lock contention
when receiving fast TCP streams. Additional gains are obtained
when the receiving application is using SO_RCVLOWAT to batch up
some data before a read (and wakeup) is done.
This function was written by "reverse engineering" and is not
just a stripped down variant of soreceive().
It is not yet enabled by default on TCP sockets. Instead it is
commented out in the protocol initialization in tcp_usrreq.c
until more widespread testing has been done.
Testers, especially with 10GigE gear, are welcome.
MFP4: r164817 //depot/user/andre/soreceive_stream/
ef760e6ad2