On Tue, 5 May 2020 09:45:35 +0200 Greg KH <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 09:28:41AM +0200, SeongJae Park wrote:
> > From: SeongJae Park <sjp...@amazon.de>
> >
> > This reverts commit 6d7855c54e1e269275d7c504f8f62a0b7a5b3f18.
> >
> > The commit 6d7855c54e1e ("sockfs: switch to ->free_inode()") made the
> > deallocation of 'socket_alloc' to be done asynchronously using RCU, as
> > same to 'sock.wq'.
> >
> > The change made 'socket_alloc' live longer than before. As a result,
> > user programs intensively repeating allocations and deallocations of
> > sockets could cause memory pressure on recent kernels.
> >
> > To avoid the problem, this commit reverts the change.
> > ---
> > net/socket.c | 6 +++---
> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> Same problems here as in patch 1/2 :(
Yes, indeed. I will send next version right now.
Thanks,
SeongJae Park
>
