Re: Page allocation failures in guest

Pierre Ossman
2009-08-12T06:19:34Z

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On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:49:51 +0930
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:

>
> It's kind of the nature of networking devices :(
>
> I'd say your host now offers GSO features, so the guest allocates big
> packets.
>
> > > I doesn't get out of it though, or at least the virtio net driver
> > > wedges itself.
>
> There's a fixme to retry when this happens, but this is the first report
> I've received. I'll check it out.
>

Will it still trigger the OOM killer with this patch, or will things
behave slightly more gracefully?

Rgds
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