tcp: add a force_schedule argument to sk_stream_alloc_skb()
In commit 8e4d980a ("tcp: fix behavior for epoll edge trigger") we fixed a possible hang of TCP sockets under memory pressure, by allowing sk_stream_alloc_skb() to use sk_forced_mem_schedule() if no packet is in socket write queue. It turns out there are other cases where we want to force memory schedule : tcp_fragment() & tso_fragment() need to split a big TSO packet into two smaller ones. If we block here because of TCP memory pressure, we can effectively block TCP socket from sending new data. If no further ACK is coming, this hang would be definitive, and socket has no chance to effectively reduce its memory usage. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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