linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tcp: splice as many packets as possible at once

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Date:	Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:19:14 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	w@....eu
Cc:	jarkao2@...il.com, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, zbr@...emap.net,
	dada1@...mosbay.com, ben@...s.com, mingo@...e.hu,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	jens.axboe@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: splice as many packets as possible at once

From: Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:03:31 +0100

> please don't merge it as-is. I've just tried it and got an OOM
> in __alloc_pages_internal after a few seconds of data transfer.
> 
> I'm leaving the patch below for comments, maybe someone will spot
> something ? Don't we need at least one kfree() somewhere to match
> alloc_pages() ?

What is needed is a put_page().

But that should be happening as a result of the splice callback.
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