netdev - Re: Add a SOCK_DESTROY operation to close sockets from userspace

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Date:	Fri, 20 Nov 2015 09:09:00 +0900
From:	Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@...gle.com>
To:	Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	zenczykowski <zenczykowski@...il.com>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Erik Kline <ek@...gle.com>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: Add a SOCK_DESTROY operation to close sockets from userspace

On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 9:04 AM, Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com> wrote:
> or to start killing connections based on some arbitrary policy when
> under memory pressure.

You mean like the OOM killer starts killing entire processes based on
some arbitrary policy when under memory pressure? :-)
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