netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/6] mptcp: implement wmem reservation

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Date:   Mon, 30 Nov 2020 15:43:33 -0800 (PST)
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, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/6] mptcp: implement wmem reservation

On Fri, 27 Nov 2020, Paolo Abeni wrote:

> This leverages the previous commit to reserve the wmem
> required for the sendmsg() operation when the msk socket
> lock is first acquired.
> Some heuristics are used to get a reasonable [over] estimation of
> the whole memory required. If we can't forward alloc such amount
> fallback to a reasonable small chunk, otherwise enter the wait
> for memory path.
>
> When sendmsg() needs more memory it looks at wmem_reserved
> first and if that is exhausted, move more space from
> sk_forward_alloc.
>
> The reserved memory is not persistent and is released at the
> next socket unlock via the release_cb().
>
> Overall this will simplify the next patch.
>
> Acked-by: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
> ---
> net/mptcp/protocol.c | 92 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> net/mptcp/protocol.h |  1 +
> 2 files changed, 86 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

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

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Mat Martineau
Intel