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Message-ID: <1495528968.2174.2.camel@suse.com> Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 10:42:48 +0200 From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com> To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, jim_baxter@...tor.com Cc: bjorn@...k.no, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC V1 1/1] net: cdc_ncm: Reduce memory use when kernel memory low Am Montag, den 22.05.2017, 11:54 -0400 schrieb David Miller: > > Unfortunately without a real notifier of some sort (there isn't one, and > it isn't actually easy to come up with a clean way to do this which is > probably why it doesn't exist yet in the first place) I really cannot > recommend anything better. > > That being said, probably for the time being we should just backoff each > and every request, always trying initially to do the higher order thing. We could use a counter. After the first failure, do it once, after the second twice and so on. And reset the counter as a higher order allocation works. (just bound it somewhere) Regards Oliver
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