netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 0/2] tcp: final (?) round of mem pressure fixes

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Date:   Wed, 15 Jun 2022 12:56:42 +0100 (BST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:     kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        soheil@...gle.com, weiwan@...gle.com, shakeelb@...gle.com,
        ncardwell@...gle.com, edumazet@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 0/2] tcp: final (?) round of mem pressure
 fixes

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2022 10:17:32 -0700

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> While working on prior patch series (e10b02ee5b6c "Merge branch
> 'net-reduce-tcp_memory_allocated-inflation'"), I found that we
> could still have frozen TCP flows under memory pressure.
> 
> I thought we had solved this in 2015, but the fix was not complete.
> 
> v2: deal with zerocopy tx paths.

Does not apply cleanly to net, please respin.

Thank you.