Re: ppoll() stuck on POLLIN while TCP peer is sending

[Eric Wong]

Eric Wong <normalperson@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Eric Dumazet <erdnetdev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2013-01-08 at 18:32 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > > Hmm, it seems sk_filter() can return -ENOMEM because skb has the
> > > pfmemalloc() set.
> > 
> > > 
> > > One TCP socket keeps retransmitting an SKB via loopback, and TCP stack 
> > > drops the packet again and again.
> > 
> > sock_init_data() sets sk->sk_allocation to GFP_KERNEL
> > 
> > Shouldnt it use (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC) instead ?
> 
> Thanks, things are running good after ~35 minutes so far.
> Will report back if things break (hopefully I don't run out
> of laptop battery power :x).

Oops, I had to restart my test :x.  However, I was able to reproduce the
issue very quickly again with your patch.  I've double-checked I'm
booting into the correct kernel, but I do have more load on this
laptop host now, so maybe that made it happen more quickly...
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