Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755558AbZINOHV (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:07:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755199AbZINOHT (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:07:19 -0400 Received: from kandzendo.ru ([195.178.208.66]:38643 "EHLO tservice.net.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751061AbZINOHS (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:07:18 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:07:20 +0400 From: Evgeniy Polyakov To: Jamie Lokier Cc: Eric Paris , David Miller , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, alan@linux.intel.com, hch@infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] networking/fanotify: declare fanotify socket numbers Message-ID: <20090914140720.GA8564@ioremap.net> References: <20090911052558.32359.18075.stgit@paris.rdu.redhat.com> <20090911.114620.260824240.davem@davemloft.net> <1252697613.2305.38.camel@dhcp231-106.rdu.redhat.com> <20090911204602.GA19371@shareable.org> <1252703626.2305.50.camel@dhcp231-106.rdu.redhat.com> <20090911212731.GA19901@shareable.org> <1252705902.2305.83.camel@dhcp231-106.rdu.redhat.com> <20090912094110.GB24709@ioremap.net> <20090914001759.GB30621@shareable.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090914001759.GB30621@shareable.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 987 Lines: 22 On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 01:17:59AM +0100, Jamie Lokier (jamie@shareable.org) wrote: > > When queue is full or you do not have enough RAM. Both are reported at > > 'sending' time. > > Can you ->poll() and wait reliably until the queue will accept an skb? > (A few spurious EAGAINs/ENOBUFs is ok, as long as it's not the norm). Not that simple and for memory allocation error just can't. There is no direct access to remote peer sockets, i.e. to userspace ones, so one will have to lock netlink table and run over listeners and check whether they can accept the message and wait/poll for queue size to become big enough. Netlink table and its locking is not exported, so effectively there is no simple way to do this. -- Evgeniy Polyakov -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/