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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>,
	linux-net-drivers@solarflare.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 7/8] net: ipv4: listified version of ip_rcv
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 11:06:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1461089206.10638.226.camel@edumazet-glaptop3.roam.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <571661E5.7010304@solarflare.com>

On Tue, 2016-04-19 at 17:50 +0100, Edward Cree wrote:
> On 19/04/16 15:50, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > The main problem in UDP stack today is having to lock the socket because
> > of the dumb forward allocation problem.
> I'm not quite sure what you're referring to here, care to educate me?


This was added for memory accounting, commit
95766fff6b9a78d11fc2d3812dd035381690b55d

TCP stack does not reclaim its forward allocations as aggressively.
(It has a concept of 'memory pressure')

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-19 18:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-19 13:33 [RFC PATCH net-next 0/8] Handle multiple received packets at each stage Edward Cree
2016-04-19 13:34 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 1/8] net: core: trivial netif_receive_skb_list() entry point Edward Cree
2016-04-19 13:35 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 2/8] sfc: batch up RX delivery on EF10 Edward Cree
2016-04-19 14:47   ` Eric Dumazet
2016-04-19 16:36     ` Edward Cree
2016-04-19 17:20       ` Eric Dumazet
2016-04-19 17:42         ` Edward Cree
2016-04-19 18:02           ` Eric Dumazet
2016-04-19 13:35 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 3/8] net: core: unwrap skb list receive slightly further Edward Cree
2016-04-19 13:35 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 4/8] net: core: Another step of skb receive list processing Edward Cree
2016-04-19 13:36 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 5/8] net: core: another layer of lists, around PF_MEMALLOC skb handling Edward Cree
2016-04-19 13:36 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 6/8] net: core: propagate SKB lists through packet_type lookup Edward Cree
2016-04-19 13:37 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 7/8] net: ipv4: listified version of ip_rcv Edward Cree
2016-04-19 14:50   ` Eric Dumazet
2016-04-19 15:46     ` Tom Herbert
2016-04-19 16:54       ` Eric Dumazet
2016-04-19 17:12       ` Edward Cree
2016-04-19 17:54         ` Eric Dumazet
2016-04-19 18:38         ` Tom Herbert
2016-04-19 16:50     ` Edward Cree
2016-04-19 18:06       ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2016-04-21 17:24   ` Edward Cree
2016-04-19 13:37 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 8/8] net: ipv4: listify ip_rcv_finish Edward Cree
2016-04-19 19:11 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 0/8] Handle multiple received packets at each stage Jesper Dangaard Brouer

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