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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] skb truesize last offenders
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:38:26 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120323.143826.1042705555491529895.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1332507112.4858.12.camel@edumazet-laptop>

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 05:51:52 -0700

> iwlwifi and some other users of skb_add_rx_frag() lie about skb
> truesize, because of API being lazy.
> 
> iwlwifi can use order-0 or order-1 pages and skb truesize is wrong.
> network sbs can use uncharged kernel memory and eventually crash machine
> in OOM.
> 
> I plan : 
> 
> 1) adding a @truesize parameter to skb_add_rx_frag() in a neutral patch
> 
> 2) fix drivers that dont charge the real size of fragment
> 
> 3) niu could then use skb_add_rx_frag() instead of custom code.

No objections from me.  But we really have to fix that
tcp_grow_window() issue, it's quite urgent if you ask me.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-23 18:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-23 12:51 [RFC] skb truesize last offenders Eric Dumazet
2012-03-23 18:38 ` David Miller [this message]
2012-03-23 18:55   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-03-24  0:05     ` [PATCH] iwlwifi: fix skb truesize underestimation Eric Dumazet
2012-03-24  0:22       ` Eric Dumazet
2012-03-24  0:29         ` [PATCH v2] " Eric Dumazet
2012-03-24 15:35           ` Guy, Wey-Yi
2012-03-24 16:12             ` Eric Dumazet

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