Re: Page allocation failures in guest

From: Pierre Ossman
Date: Thu Aug 13 2009 - 16:26:02 EST


On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:01:52 +0930
Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:49:51 pm Rusty Russell wrote:
> > On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 04:22:53 pm Avi Kivity wrote:
> > > On 08/11/2009 09:32 AM, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> > > > 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.
>
> Subject: virtio: net refill on out-of-memory
>
> If we run out of memory, use keventd to fill the buffer. There's a
> report of this happening: "Page allocation failures in guest",
> Message-ID: <20090713115158.0a4892b0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>

Patch applied. Now we wait. :)

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