Squashed commit of the following:
net/tmp: Rename the unacked field of the tcp connection structure to tx_unacked. Too confusing with the implementation of delayed RX ACKs.
net/tcp: Initial implementation of TCP delayed ACKs.
net/tcp: Add delayed ACK configuration selection. Rename tcp_ack() to tcp_synack(). It may or may not send a ACK. It will always send SYN or SYN/ACK.
1. For buffered tcp/udp case, if CONFIG_NET_ARP_SEND/CONFIG_NET_ARP_IPIN/CONFIG_NET_ICMPv6_NEIGHBOR isn't enabled and the table doesn't contain ip<->ethaddr mapping yet, the logic will skip the realtransmission and then arp/neighbor can't steal the final buffer to generate arp/icmpv6 packet.
2.for all other case, the tcp layer or user program should already contain the retransmit logic, the check is redundancy and may generate many duplicated packets if arp/icmpv6 response is too slow because the cursor stop forward. If user still concern about the very first packet lost, he could fix the issue by enabling CONFIG_NET_ARP_SEND/CONFIG_NET_ICMPv6_NEIGHBOR at begin.
Iobinstrumentation
* mm/iob: Introduces producer/consumer id to every iob call. This is so that the calls can be instrumented to monitor the IOB resources.
* iob instrumentation - Merges producer/consumer enumeration for simpler IOB user.
* fs/procfs: Starts adding support for /proc/iobinfo
* fs/procfs: Finishes first pass of simple IOB user stastics and /proc/iobinfo entry
Approved-by: Gregory Nutt <gnutt@nuttx.org>
Squashed commit of the following:
net/: Fix some naming inconsistencies, Fix final compilation issies.
net/inet/inet_close(): Now that we have logic to drain the buffered TX data, we can implement a proper lingering close.
net/inet,tcp,udp: Add functions to wait for write buffers to drain.
net/udp: Add support for notification when the UDP write buffer becomes empty.
net/tcp: Add support for notification when the TCP write buffer becomes empty.
arch/: Removed all references to CONFIG_DISABLE_POLL. The standard POSIX poll() can not longer be disabled.
sched/ audio/ crypto/: Removed all references to CONFIG_DISABLE_POLL. The standard POSIX poll() can not longer be disabled.
Documentation/: Removed all references to CONFIG_DISABLE_POLL. The standard POSIX poll() can not longer be disabled.
fs/: Removed all references to CONFIG_DISABLE_POLL. The standard POSIX poll() can not longer be disabled.
graphics/: Removed all references to CONFIG_DISABLE_POLL. The standard POSIX poll() can not longer be disabled.
net/: Removed all references to CONFIG_DISABLE_POLL. The standard POSIX poll() can not longer be disabled.
drivers/: Removed all references to CONFIG_DISABLE_POLL. The standard POSIX poll() can not longer be disabled.
include/, syscall/, wireless/: Removed all references to CONFIG_DISABLE_POLL. The standard POSIX poll() can not longer be disabled.
configs/: Remove all references to CONFIG_DISABLE_POLL. Standard POSIX poll can no longer be disabled.
Squashed commit of the following:
sched/sched/sched_getsockets.c: Fix an error in conditional compilation.
fs/: Remove all conditional logic based on CONFIG_NSOCKET_DESCRIPTORS == 0
Documentation/: Remove all references to CONFIG_NSOCKET_DESCRIPTORS == 0
include/: Remove all conditional logic based on CONFIG_NSOCKET_DESCRIPTORS == 0
libs/: Remove all conditional logic based on CONFIG_NSOCKET_DESCRIPTORS == 0
net/: Remove all conditional logic based on CONFIG_NSOCKET_DESCRIPTORS == 0
sched/: Remove all conditional logic based on CONFIG_NSOCKET_DESCRIPTORS == 0
syscall/: Remove all conditional logic based on CONFIG_NSOCKET_DESCRIPTORS == 0
tools/: Fixups for CONFIG_NSOCKET_DESCRIPTORS no longer used to disable sockets.
sched/wqueue/kwork_notifier.c: Redesign some data structures. struct works_s must appear at the beginning of the notifier entry structure. That is because it contains the work queue indices. This solves a harfault issue.
net/tcp/tcp_netpoll.c: tcp_iob_work() needs to free the allocated argument when it is finished.
net/tcp/tcp_send_buffered.c: Extend psock_tcp_cansend() so that it also requires that at least on IOB is also avaialble.
mm/iob: iob_navail() was returning the number of free IOB chain queue entries, not the number of free IOBs. Completely misnamed.
net/tcp/tcp_netpoll.c: Add logic to receive notifications when IOBs are freed (Needs CONFIG_NET_TCP_WRITE_BUFFERS and CONFIG_IOB_NOTIFIER). At present, does nothing because the logic in in psock_tcp_cansend() does not check for the availability of IOBs. That will change.