Re: Page allocation failures in guest

[Pierre Ossman]

On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:49:51 +0930
Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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