Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 May 2008 21:58:11 +0200 (CEST) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.26: x86/kernel/pci_dma.c: gfp |= __GFP_NORETRY ? |
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On Thu, 22 May 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 09:49:27AM -0300, Glauber Costa wrote: > > probably andi has a better idea on why it was added, since it used to > > live in his tree? > > d_a_c() tries a couple of zones, and running the oom killer for each > is inconvenient. Especially for the 16MB DMA zone which is unlikely > to be cleared by the OOM killer anyways because normal user applications > don't put pages in there. There was a real report with some problems > in this area.
Can you give some pointers please ?
Thanks, tglx
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