[PATCH v4 1/5] vsock/virtio: limit the memory used per-socket

Jason Wang
2019-10-14T08:21:35Z

On 2019/10/14 ??4:17, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> SO_VM_SOCKETS_BUFFER_SIZE might have been useful for VMCI-specific
> applications, but we should use SO_RCVBUF and SO_SNDBUF for portable
> applications in the future.  Those socket options also work with other
> address families.
>
> I guess these sockopts are bypassed by AF_VSOCK because it doesn't use
> the common skb queuing code in net/core/sock.c:(.  But one day we might
> migrate to it...
>
> Stefan


+1, we should really consider to reuse the exist socket mechanism
instead of re-inventing wheels.

Thanks