On 03/19/2014 10:07 PM, Zoltan Kiss wrote:
skb_zerocopy can copy elements of the frags array between skbs, but it doesn't orphan them. Also, it doesn't handle errors, so this patch takes care of that as well. Signed-off-by: Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@xxxxxxxxxx>
--- + if (unlikely(skb_orphan_frags(to, GFP_ATOMIC))) { + skb_tx_error(to); + return -ENOMEM; + }
Did you consider calling skb_tx_error() for Netlink message allocation failures for the upcall as well? That memory pressure is currently not reported back. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html