Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC] tcp: Allow sk_wmem_alloc to exceed sysctl_tcp_limit_output_bytes

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2015-04-15 at 15:19 +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 4:03 PM, Malcolm Crossley
[...]
> > From a networking point of view, the backend is a switch. Is it OK to
> > consider the packet to have been transmitted from the guest point of
> > view once the backend is aware of the packet?
> >
> > This would help justify the skb_orphan() in the frontend.
> 
> This sounds sensible to me, particularly if virtio_net is already doing it.

I also find Malcolm's argument above pretty compelling.

Ian.


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