> fragments until the skbuffs have been built, THEN insert the fragments onto
> the device output queue. That way, if you run out of memory you don't send
> anything at all, and you have less dead traffic.
Its a bad idea. Running out of memory is a weird fringe case. Your proposal
makes it more likely to happen and harms performance in general in case it
does.
> be implemented to count the total number of memory-out conditions
> encountered by the networking software; right now it happens silently so
> there is no way for the sysadmin to be aware there are any problems. (I
> prefer that to generating a syslog message because the admin can write his
> own userland stuff to track any memory problems.)
alloc_skb fails are counted
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