On 3/14/26 9:13 PM, atwellwea@gmail.com wrote:

+/* Sender-visible window rescue does not relax hard receive-memory admission.
+ * If growth did not make room, fall back to the established prune/collapse
+ * path.
+ */
 static int tcp_try_rmem_schedule(struct sock *sk, const struct sk_buff *skb,
 				 unsigned int size)
 {
-	if (!tcp_can_ingest(sk, skb) ||
-	    !sk_rmem_schedule(sk, skb, size)) {
+	bool can_ingest = tcp_can_ingest(sk, skb);
+	bool scheduled = can_ingest && sk_rmem_schedule(sk, skb, size);
+
+	if (!scheduled) {
+		int pruned = tcp_prune_queue(sk, skb);
 
-		if (tcp_prune_queue(sk, skb) < 0)
+		if (pruned < 0)
 			return -1;
 
 		while (!sk_rmem_schedule(sk, skb, size)) {
-			if (!tcp_prune_ofo_queue(sk, skb))
+			bool pruned_ofo = tcp_prune_ofo_queue(sk, skb);
+
+			if (!pruned_ofo)
 				return -1;
 		}
 	}

The above chunk is AFAICS pure noise. Please have a more careful local
review of this series before any next revision.

/P