net: add low latency socket poll

Adds an ndo_ll_poll method and the code that supports it.
This method can be used by low latency applications to busy-poll
Ethernet device queues directly from the socket code.
sysctl_net_ll_poll controls how many microseconds to poll.
Default is zero (disabled).
Individual protocol support will be added by subsequent patches.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Eliezer Tamir <eliezer.tamir@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Tested-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c
index 3ebdcb805c51..21fd29f63ed2 100644
--- a/net/socket.c
+++ b/net/socket.c
@@ -104,6 +104,12 @@
 #include <linux/route.h>
 #include <linux/sockios.h>
 #include <linux/atalk.h>
+#include <net/ll_poll.h>
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_NET_LL_RX_POLL
+unsigned long sysctl_net_ll_poll __read_mostly;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysctl_net_ll_poll);
+#endif
 
 static int sock_no_open(struct inode *irrelevant, struct file *dontcare);
 static ssize_t sock_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,