[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] core, nfqueue, openvswitch: Orphan frags in skb_zerocopy and handle errors



On 03/20/2014 01:16 PM, Thomas Graf wrote:
On 03/19/2014 10:07 PM, Zoltan Kiss wrote:
skb_zerocopy can copy elements of the frags array between skbs, but it
doesn't
orphan them. Also, it doesn't handle errors, so this patch takes care
of that
as well.

Signed-off-by: Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@xxxxxxxxxx>

I take this back ;)

---
+    if (unlikely(skb_orphan_frags(to, GFP_ATOMIC))) {
+        skb_tx_error(to);
+        return -ENOMEM;
+    }

Just noticed that you orphan the Netlink skb frags which do not
exist yet instead of the source skb frags.

Did you consider calling skb_tx_error() for Netlink message
allocation failures for the upcall as well? That memory pressure
is currently not reported back.


_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel


 


Rackspace

Lists.xenproject.org is hosted with RackSpace, monitoring our
servers 24x7x365 and backed by RackSpace's Fanatical Support®.