netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 net-next] tcp: TCP Small Queues

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Date:	Wed, 11 Jul 2012 11:38:31 -0700
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, nanditad@...gle.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, codel@...ts.bufferbloat.net,
	ncardwell@...gle.com, mattmathis@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next] tcp: TCP Small Queues

Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> writes:
> +
> +		if (!sock_owned_by_user(sk)) {
> +			if ((1 << sk->sk_state) &
> +			    (TCPF_ESTABLISHED | TCPF_FIN_WAIT1 |
> +			     TCPF_CLOSING | TCPF_CLOSE_WAIT))
> +				tcp_write_xmit(sk,
> +					       tcp_current_mss(sk),
> +					       0, 0,
> +					       GFP_ATOMIC);

Did you have any problems with the GFP_ATOMIC allocation failing here?
I think you move some skb allocs from process context to ATOMIC, right?

It relies on the VM somehow catching up in another context.

May be interesting to try out under very high memory pressure.

-Andi

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