netdev - Re: [PATCH] netem: add limitation to reordered packets

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Message-Id: <20120709.000212.14587878724925750.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 09 Jul 2012 00:02:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, hagen@...u.net, msg@...gle.com,
	aterzis@...gle.com, ycheng@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netem: add limitation to reordered packets

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2012 08:55:21 +0200

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> Fix two netem bugs :
> 
> 1) When a frame was dropped by tfifo_enqueue(), drop counter
>    was incremented twice.
> 
> 2) When reordering is triggered, we enqueue a packet without
>    checking queue limit. This can OOM pretty fast when this
>    is repeated enough, since skbs are orphaned, no socket limit
>    can help in this situation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks Eric.
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