On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 09:28:39AM +0200, SeongJae Park wrote: > From: SeongJae Park <sjp...@amazon.de> > > The commit 6d7855c54e1e ("sockfs: switch to ->free_inode()") made the > deallocation of 'socket_alloc' to be done asynchronously using RCU, as > same to 'sock.wq'. And the following commit 333f7909a857 ("coallocate > socket_sq with socket itself") made those to have same life cycle. > > The changes made the code much more simple, but also made 'socket_alloc' > live longer than before. For the reason, user programs intensively > repeating allocations and deallocations of sockets could cause memory > pressure on recent kernels. > > To avoid the problem, this commit reverts the changes.
Is it "could cause" or is it "have been actually observed to"?