netdev - Re: [PATCH 4/5] udp: memory limitation by using udp

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Date:	Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:12:42 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	haoki@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	satoshi.oshima.fk@...achi.com, billfink@...dspring.com,
	andi@...stfloor.org, johnpol@....mipt.ru,
	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
	yumiko.sugita.yf@...achi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] udp: memory limitation by using udp_mem

On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 03:23:53PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
>
> We don't have tests all over the place to see if a socket is TCP or
> DCCP or SCTP in order to implement memory accounting there, because we
> did it for connection oriented protocols cleanly, seperating things
> via callbacks etc.
> 
> I would like to see the datagram memory accounting work similarly.

I agree.  In fact if we adopt some of the conventions used by
stream protocols such as the use of sk_forward_alloc, we should
be able to share code with TCP accounting too.

As it is every packet updates a global counter, using sk_forward_alloc
would mean that for most packets you only update a per-socket counter
which then would feed into the global counter at points such as socket
creation and destruction.

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