Re: Question about OOM-Killer

Andi Kleen
2005-07-26T15:17:54Z

> But that's really for ISA DMA, which nobody uses any more apart from the
> floppy disk, and the stone-tablet adaptor. For now, I'm guessing that if
> you remove that __GFP_DMA, your machine will be happier, but it's not
> the right fix.

iirc the reason for that was that someone could load an old ISA SCSI controller
later as a module and it needs to handle that. Perhaps make it dependent
on CONFIG_ISA ? But even that would not help on distribution kernels.
Another way would be to check in PCI systems if there is a ISA
bridge and for others assume ISA is there.

-Andi