netdev - Re: SO_RESERVE_MEM doesn't quite work, at least on UDP

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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2024 09:11:19 +0100
From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>, Wei Wang <weiwan@...gle.com>, 
 Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Eric Dumazet
 <edumazet@...gle.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: SO_RESERVE_MEM doesn't quite work, at least on UDP

On Thu, 2024-02-15 at 13:17 -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> With SO_RESERVE_MEM, I can reserve memory, and it gets credited to
> sk_forward_alloc.  But, as far as I can tell, nothing keeps it from
> getting "reclaimed" (i.e. un-credited from sk_forward_alloc and
> uncharged).  So, for UDP at least, it basically doesn't work.

SO_RESERVE_MEM is basically not implemented (yet) for UDP. Patches are
welcome - even if I would be curious about the use-case.

Thanks,

Paolo