+----------------+
| |
| |
| FREE BUFFER |
| |
| |
+----------------+
| |
| UNSENT BYTES |
| |
+----------------+
| |
| UNACKED BYTES |
| |
+----------------+
Total send buffer size
Total send buffer size = unacked-bytes + unsent-bytes + free-buffer.
SO_SNDBUF socket option.
The buffer size could dynamically change its size as seen needed by the
OS. This works for both Linux and macOS. slen = sizeof(sndbufsiz);
err = getsockopt(sd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_SNDBUF, &sndbufsiz, &slen);
Total in-flight bytes
Total inflight bytes = unacked-bytes + unsent-bytes.
SO_NWRITE socket option on macOS, and SIOCOUTQ ioctl on Linux.int get_socket_used(int sd){
int err;
int used;
#ifdef __APPLE__
socklen_t slen = sizeof(used);
err = getsockopt(sd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_NWRITE, &used,&slen);
if(err < 0) {
perror("getsockopt 2");
exit(1);
}
#else
err = ioctl(sd, SIOCOUTQ, &used);
if(err < 0) {
perror("ioctl SIOCOUTQ");
exit(1);
}
#endif
return used;
}
TCP_INFO struct, but it is a private API.u_int32_t tcpi_snd_sbbytes; /* bytes in snd buffer including data inflight */
unacked-bytes
On Linux, unacked-bytes can be obtained from theTCP_INFO structure, but the result is number of segments, or bytes. On macOS, TCP_INFO seems to contain this infomration (private API).int get_socket_unacked(int sd){
struct tcp_info tcp_info;
socklen_t tcp_info_length = sizeof(tcp_info);
if ( getsockopt(sd, IPPROTO_TCP, TCP_INFO, (void *)&tcp_info, &tcp_info_length ) == 0 ) {
return tcp_info.tcpi_unacked;
}
return 0;
}
//For macOS, use TCP_INFO
u_int64_t tcpi_txunacked __attribute__((aligned(8))); /* current number of bytes not acknowledged */
unsent-bytes (not including un-acked bytes)
On Linux, unsent-bytes can be obtained from thetcpi_notsent_bytes field of the TCP_INFO structure. NOTE that this requires kernel version to be 4.6 or newer. For Android that means Android 8 or newer. On Linux, it can also be obtained using SIOCOUTQNSD ioctl. It’s not clear how to do this on macOS.//defined in /usr/include/linux/sockios.h
int get_socket_unsent(int sd){
int err;
int unsent;
err = ioctl(sd, SIOCOUTQNSD, &unsent);
if(err < 0) {
perror("ioctl SIOCOUTQNSD");
exit(1);
}
return unsent;
}
//OR
int get_socket_unsent(int sd){
struct tcp_info tcp_info;
socklen_t tcp_info_length = sizeof(tcp_info);
if ( getsockopt(sd, IPPROTO_TCP, TCP_INFO, (void *)&tcp_info, &tcp_info_length ) == 0 ) {
return tcp_info.tcpi_notsent_bytes;
}
return 0;
}
epoll and kevent
epoll on Linux, and kevent on macOS, get triggered by theunsent-bytes, when the TCP option TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT is set. On macOS, kevent() doesn’t report socket as writable until the unsent TCP data drops below speciï¬ed threshold (typically 8 kilobytes).