Re: [PATCH] net: remove judgement based on gfp_flags

[Zhaoyang Huang]

On Fri, Dec 24, 2021 at 1:11 AM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 23 Dec 2021 09:56:07 +0800 Huangzhaoyang wrote:
> > From: Zhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > The parameter allocation here is used for indicating if the memory
> > allocation can stall or not. Since we have got the skb buffer, it
> > doesn't make sense to check if we can yield on the net's congested
> > via gfp_flags. Remove it now.
>
> This is checking if we can sleep AFAICT. What are you trying to fix?
Yes and NO. gfp means *get free pages* which indicate if the embedded
memory allocation among the process can sleep or not, but without any
other meanings. The driver which invokes this function could have to
use GFP_KERNEL for allocating memory as the critical resources but
don't want to sleep on the netlink's congestion.

>
> > diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
> > index 4c57532..af5b6af 100644
> > --- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
> > +++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
> > @@ -1526,7 +1526,7 @@ int netlink_broadcast(struct sock *ssk, struct sk_buff *skb, u32 portid,
> >       consume_skb(info.skb2);
> >
> >       if (info.delivered) {
> > -             if (info.congested && gfpflags_allow_blocking(allocation))
> > +             if (info.congested)
> >                       yield();
> >               return 0;
> >       }
>