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From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
To: Eric Dumazet <erdnetdev@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: ppoll() stuck on POLLIN while TCP peer is sending
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 08:42:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130109084247.GA6545@dcvr.yhbt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130109035511.GA6857@dcvr.yhbt.net>

Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> wrote:
> Eric Dumazet <erdnetdev@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2013-01-08 at 18:32 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > > Hmm, it seems sk_filter() can return -ENOMEM because skb has the
> > > pfmemalloc() set.
> > 
> > > 
> > > One TCP socket keeps retransmitting an SKB via loopback, and TCP stack 
> > > drops the packet again and again.
> > 
> > sock_init_data() sets sk->sk_allocation to GFP_KERNEL
> > 
> > Shouldnt it use (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC) instead ?
> 
> Thanks, things are running good after ~35 minutes so far.
> Will report back if things break (hopefully I don't run out
> of laptop battery power :x).

Oops, I had to restart my test :x.  However, I was able to reproduce the
issue very quickly again with your patch.  I've double-checked I'm
booting into the correct kernel, but I do have more load on this
laptop host now, so maybe that made it happen more quickly...

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-09  8:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20121228014503.GA5017@dcvr.yhbt.net>
2013-01-02 20:08 ` Eric Wong
2013-01-02 20:47   ` Eric Wong
2013-01-03 13:41     ` Eric Dumazet
2013-01-03 18:32       ` Eric Wong
2013-01-03 23:45         ` Eric Wong
2013-01-04  0:26           ` Eric Wong
2013-01-04  3:52             ` Eric Wong
2013-01-04 16:01   ` Mel Gorman
2013-01-04 17:15     ` Eric Dumazet
2013-01-04 17:59     ` Eric Wong
2013-01-05  1:07     ` Eric Wong
2013-01-06 12:07     ` Eric Wong
2013-01-07 12:25       ` Mel Gorman
2013-01-07 22:38         ` Eric Dumazet
2013-01-08  0:21           ` Eric Wong
2013-01-07 22:38         ` Eric Wong
2013-01-08 20:14           ` Eric Wong
2013-01-08 22:43           ` Mel Gorman
2013-01-08 23:23             ` Eric Wong
2013-01-09  2:14               ` Eric Dumazet
2013-01-09  2:32                 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-01-09  2:54                   ` Eric Dumazet
2013-01-09  3:55                     ` Eric Wong
2013-01-09  8:42                       ` Eric Wong [this message]
2013-01-09  8:51                         ` Eric Wong
2013-01-09 13:42                   ` Mel Gorman
2013-01-09 13:37               ` Mel Gorman
2013-01-09 13:50                 ` Mel Gorman
2013-01-10  9:25                 ` Eric Wong
2013-01-10 19:42                   ` Mel Gorman
2013-01-10 20:03                     ` Eric Wong
2013-01-10 20:58                     ` Eric Dumazet
2013-01-11  0:51                     ` Eric Wong
2013-01-11  9:30                       ` Mel Gorman
2013-01-09 21:29             ` Eric Wong

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