On 10/1/19 1:45 PM, John Ousterhout wrote:

But this isn't really about socket resource limits (though that is
conflated in the implementation); it's about limiting the time spent
in a single call to __release_sock, no?

The proxy used is memory usage, not time usage.

cond_resched() or a preemptible kernel makes anything based on time flaky,
you probably do not want to play with a time limit...