From: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Page allocation failures in guest
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:19:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090812081934.33e8280f@mjolnir.ossman.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200908121249.51973.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-12 6:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-13 9:51 Page allocation failures in guest Pierre Ossman
2009-07-13 14:59 ` Minchan Kim
2009-08-11 6:32 ` Pierre Ossman
2009-08-11 6:52 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-12 3:19 ` Rusty Russell
2009-08-12 5:31 ` Rusty Russell
2009-08-12 5:41 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-12 6:56 ` Rusty Russell
2009-08-13 20:25 ` Pierre Ossman
2009-08-26 2:17 ` Rusty Russell
2009-08-26 4:55 ` Pierre Ossman
2009-08-26 12:18 ` Rusty Russell
2009-08-26 19:22 ` David Miller
2009-08-12 6:19 ` Pierre Ossman [this message]
2009-08-12 7:43 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-12 8:22 ` Pierre Ossman
2009-08-12 8:35 ` Avi Kivity
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