tcp: add a force_schedule argument to sk_stream_alloc_skb()

In commit 8e4d980ac2 ("tcp: fix behavior for epoll edge trigger")
we fixed a possible hang of TCP sockets under memory pressure,
by allowing sk_stream_alloc_skb() to use sk_forced_mem_schedule()
if no packet is in socket write queue.

It turns out there are other cases where we want to force memory
schedule :

tcp_fragment() & tso_fragment() need to split a big TSO packet into
two smaller ones. If we block here because of TCP memory pressure,
we can effectively block TCP socket from sending new data.
If no further ACK is coming, this hang would be definitive, and socket
has no chance to effectively reduce its memory usage.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This commit is contained in:
Eric Dumazet
2015-05-19 13:26:55 -07:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 765c9c639f
commit eb9344781a
3 changed files with 18 additions and 14 deletions

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@@ -2025,7 +2025,8 @@ static inline void sk_stream_moderate_sndbuf(struct sock *sk)
}
}
struct sk_buff *sk_stream_alloc_skb(struct sock *sk, int size, gfp_t gfp);
struct sk_buff *sk_stream_alloc_skb(struct sock *sk, int size, gfp_t gfp,
bool force_schedule);
/**
* sk_page_frag - return an appropriate page_frag