Re: [RFC V1 1/1] net: cdc_ncm: Reduce memory use when kernel memory low

From: Oliver Neukum
Date: Tue May 23 2017 - 04:44:35 EST


Am Montag, den 22.05.2017, 11:54 -0400 schrieb David Miller:
>
> Unfortunately without a real notifier of some sort (there isn't one, and
> it isn't actually easy to come up with a clean way to do this which is
> probably why it doesn't exist yet in the first place) I really cannot
> recommend anything better.
>
> That being said, probably for the time being we should just backoff each
> and every request, always trying initially to do the higher order thing.

We could use a counter. After the first failure, do it once, after the
second twice and so on. And reset the counter as a higher order
allocation works. (just bound it somewhere)

Regards
Oliver