Re: [PATCH net] virtio-net: fix page refcnt leaking when fail toallocate frag skb

[Eric Dumazet]

On Wed, 2013-11-20 at 18:06 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

> Hmm some kind of disconnect here.
> I got you rmanagement about bufferbloat.
> 
> What I am saying is that maybe we should drop packets more
> aggressively: when we drop one packet of a flow, why not
> drop everything that's queued and is for the same flow?

I really hope your TCP flows use SACK ;)

Please read the rfc 2018 introduction for details.

If a packet is dropped, it doesn't mean following packets _have_ to be
dropped.


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