On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 7:26 AM, Eric Dumazet <eric.duma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-05-08 at 22:07 -0700, Cong Wang wrote:
>> On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 9:31 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.duma...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Sun, 2016-05-08 at 21:14 -0700, Cong Wang wrote:
>> >
>> >> So when the packet is dropped due to memory over limit, should
>> >> we return failure for this case? Or I miss anything?
>> >
>> > Same behavior than before.
>> >
>> > If we dropped some packets of this flow, we return NET_XMIT_CN
>>
>> I think for the limited memory case, the upper layer is supposed
>> to stop sending more packets when hitting the limit.
>
> They doe. NET_XMIT_CN for example aborts IP fragmentation.
>
> TCP flows will also instantly react.
But not for the NET_XMIT_SUCCESS case:
return ret == idx ? NET_XMIT_CN : NET_XMIT_SUCCESS;
