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unix: new implementation of unix/stream & unix/seqpacket
Provide protocol specific pr_sosend and pr_soreceive for PF_UNIX SOCK_STREAM sockets and implement SOCK_SEQPACKET sockets as an extension of SOCK_STREAM. The change meets three goals: get rid of unix(4) specific stuff in the generic socket code, provide a faster and robust unix/stream sockets and bring unix/seqpacket much closer to specification. Highlights follow: - The send buffer now is truly bypassed. Previously it was always empty, but the send(2) still needed to acquire its lock and do a variety of tricks to be woken up in the right time while sleeping on it. Now the only two things we care about in the send buffer is the I/O sx(9) lock that serializes operations and value of so_snd.sb_hiwat, which we can read without obtaining a lock. The sleep of a send(2) happens on the mutex of the receive buffer of the peer. A bulk send/recv of data with large socket buffers will make both syscalls just bounce between owning the receive buffer lock and copyin(9)/copyout(9), no other locks would be involved. - The implementation uses new mchain structure to manipulate mbuf chains. Note that this required converting to mchain two functions that are shared with unix/dgram: unp_internalize() and unp_addsockcred() as well as adding a new shared one uipc_process_kernel_mbuf(). This induces some non- functional changes in the unix/dgram code as well. There is a space for improvement here, as right now it is a mix of mchain and manually managed mbuf chains. - unix/seqpacket previously marked as PR_ADDR & PR_ATOMIC and thus treated as a datagram socket by the generic socket code, now becomes a true stream socket with record markers. - unix/stream loses the sendfile(2) support. This can be brought back, but requires some work. Let's first see if there is any interest in this feature, except purely academical. Reviewed by: markj, tuexen Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D44151
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