From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 09:11:22 -0800
> From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]> > > In commit d35c99ff77ecb ("netlink: do not enter direct reclaim from > netlink_dump()") we made sure to not trigger expensive memory reclaim. > > Problem is that a bit later, netlink_trim() might be called and > trigger memory reclaim. > > netlink_trim() should be best effort, and really as fast as possible. > Under memory pressure, it is fine to not trim this skb. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]> Applied, thanks Eric.
