On Wed, 2015-04-22 at 14:15 -0400, David Miller wrote: > Wrt. longer term solutions, I would even be OK at this point aborting > the connection altogether if the skb allocation fails period. Not > just if TIF_MEMDIE is set. That endless loop has been nothing but > trouble.
Agreed. Note that in the unlikely case skb can not be allocated, if an already transmitted packet is in the write queue, we also can OR the FIN flag on it, and rely on normal rtx to deliver this FIN later. I'll cook a patch when net-next reopens. Thanks David. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
