sock: allocate skbs from optmem
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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