From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <20080320202124.436150000@chello.nl> References: <20080320201042.675090000@chello.nl> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:11:02 +0100 From: Peter Zijlstra Subject: [PATCH 20/30] netvm: filter emergency skbs. Content-Disposition: inline; filename=netvm-sk_filter.patch Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, neilb@suse.de, miklos@szeredi.hu, penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl List-ID: Toss all emergency packets not for a SOCK_MEMALLOC socket. This ensures our precious memory reserve doesn't get stuck waiting for user-space. The correctness of this approach relies on the fact that networks must be assumed lossy. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra --- include/net/sock.h | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) Index: linux-2.6/include/net/sock.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/include/net/sock.h +++ linux-2.6/include/net/sock.h @@ -1007,6 +1007,9 @@ static inline int sk_filter(struct sock { int err; struct sk_filter *filter; + + if (skb_emergency(skb) && !sk_has_memalloc(sk)) + return -ENOMEM; err = security_sock_rcv_skb(sk, skb); if (err) -- -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org