I got a little bit mixed up between the msg and mmsg version. After a quick look, we should be able to fall back to recvmsg/sendmsg for a basic socket implementation
But yes, this patch removed a lot of code and a new version would be very quick to implement (mostly replacing mmsg by msg). Nicolas On 06/30/2015 06:00 PM, Stuart Haslam wrote: > On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 06:28:10PM +0300, Maxim Uvarov wrote: >> Why it's needed to remove basic socket? Some people use very old >> machines mmap and mmsg might be not supported. >> >> Maxim. > It simplifies the implementation - this change removed 127 lines and > avoided having to add another bunch. > > There's been a sendmmsg wrapper for the last few months, which removes > the need for support for sendmmsg in glibc/kernel. The limiting factor > is likely to be recvmmsg support, which was added in kernel 2.6.33 and > glibc 2.12. That was true previously anyway, since implementation type > was selected at runtime but the failure would occur at build time, so > there is no change as far as I can tell. > > If we want to support versions without recvmmsg in future, we'd be > better off writing a wrapper to that similar to the sendmmsg one. > > -- > Stuart. > _______________________________________________ > lng-odp mailing list > lng-odp@lists.linaro.org > https://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/lng-odp _______________________________________________ lng-odp mailing list lng-odp@lists.linaro.org https://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/lng-odp
