Re: [PATCH] tcp: splice as many packets as possible at once

[David Miller]

From: Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:03:31 +0100

> please don't merge it as-is. I've just tried it and got an OOM
> in __alloc_pages_internal after a few seconds of data transfer.
> 
> I'm leaving the patch below for comments, maybe someone will spot
> something ? Don't we need at least one kfree() somewhere to match
> alloc_pages() ?

What is needed is a put_page().

But that should be happening as a result of the splice callback.
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