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sock: allocate skbs from optmem

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Add sock_omalloc and sock_ofree to be able to allocate control skbs,
for instance for looping errors onto sk_error_queue.

The transmit budget (sk_wmem_alloc) is involved in transmit skb
shaping, most notably in TCP Small Queues. Using this budget for
control packets would impact transmission.

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Willem de Bruijn
2017-08-03 16:29:37 -04:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 84b7187ca2
commit 98ba0bd550
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@@ -1531,6 +1531,8 @@ struct sk_buff *sock_wmalloc(struct sock *sk, unsigned long size, int force,
gfp_t priority);
void __sock_wfree(struct sk_buff *skb);
void sock_wfree(struct sk_buff *skb);
struct sk_buff *sock_omalloc(struct sock *sk, unsigned long size,
gfp_t priority);
void skb_orphan_partial(struct sk_buff *skb);
void sock_rfree(struct sk_buff *skb);
void sock_efree(struct sk_buff *skb);