Re: [PATCH] fdtable: Avoid triggering OOMs from alloc_fdmem

On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 09:22 -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

The two code paths below certainly look good canidates for having
__GFP_NORETRY added to them.  The same issues I ran into with
alloc_fdmem are likely to show up there as well.

Yes, this is what I thought : a write into TCP socket should be more
frequent than the alloc_fdmem() case ;)

But then, maybe your workload was only using UDP ?


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