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SubjectRe: 2.6.26: x86/kernel/pci_dma.c: gfp |= __GFP_NORETRY ?
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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