Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 25 May 2008 20:55:32 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.26: x86/kernel/pci_dma.c: gfp |= __GFP_NORETRY ? |
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On Sun, 25 May 2008 18:35:39 +0200 Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> > So how about linux-2.6.26-gfp-no-oom.patch (see previous mail) for > > 2.6.26 > > Changing the gfp once globally like you did is not right, because > the different fallback cases have to be handled differently > (see the different cases I discussed in my earlier mail) > > Especially the 16MB zone allocation should never trigger the OOM killer.
That depends how much memory you have.
Alan
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