Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: fragments sent in reverse order | Date | Sat, 15 Jan 2000 20:14:33 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> fragments until the skbuffs have been built, THEN insert the fragments onto > the device output queue. That way, if you run out of memory you don't send > anything at all, and you have less dead traffic.
Its a bad idea. Running out of memory is a weird fringe case. Your proposal makes it more likely to happen and harms performance in general in case it does.
> be implemented to count the total number of memory-out conditions > encountered by the networking software; right now it happens silently so > there is no way for the sysadmin to be aware there are any problems. (I > prefer that to generating a syslog message because the admin can write his > own userland stuff to track any memory problems.)
alloc_skb fails are counted
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