netdev - Re: [PATCH net] mptcp: add missing memory scheduling in the rx path

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Message-ID: <d7886714-7b92-9be8-441e-73c48c52d62@linux.intel.com>
Date:   Tue, 27 Oct 2020 15:46:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:   Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        mptcp@...ts.01.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] mptcp: add missing memory scheduling in the rx
 path

On Tue, 27 Oct 2020, Paolo Abeni wrote:

> When moving the skbs from the subflow into the msk receive
> queue, we must schedule there the required amount of memory.
>
> Try to borrow the required memory from the subflow, if needed,
> so that we leverage the existing TCP heuristic.
>
> Fixes: 6771bfd9ee24 ("mptcp: update mptcp ack sequence from work queue")
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
> ---
> net/mptcp/protocol.c | 10 ++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
>

Reviewed-by: Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@...ux.intel.com>

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Mat Martineau
Intel