On 08/13/2015 04:40 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
On Thu, 2015-08-13 at 11:13 +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
Given that this apparently isn't the first case of this localhost issue,
I wonder if network code should just clear skb->pfmemalloc during send
(or maybe just send over localhost). That would be probably easier than
distinguish the __skb_fill_page_desc() callers for send vs receive.
Would this still needed after this patch ?
Not until another corner case is discovered :) Or something passes a
genuine pfmemalloc page to a socket (sending contents of some slab
objects perhaps, where the slab page was allocated as pfmemalloc? Dunno
if that can happen right now).
It is sad we do not have a SNMP counter to at least count how often we
drop skb because pfmemalloc is set.
I'll provide such a patch.
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