RE: adding swap workarounds oom - was: Re: Out of Memory: Killed process 16498 (java).

[Andy Chittenden]

> On Thu, Mar 02 2006, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Thursday 02 March 2006 12:10, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm waiting for Andi to render an opinion on the problem. 
> It should have
> > > no corruption implications, the PIO path will handle 
> arbitrarily large
> > > requests. I'm assuming the mapped sg table is correct, 
> just odd looking
> > > for some reason.
> > 
> > I was waiting for feedback if iommu=nomerge changes 
> anything. With that option
> > the IOMMU code will never touch the layout of the sg list, 
> just rewrite
> > ->dma_address
> 
> Andy already reported that it didn't change anything. The 
> output doesn't
> looked merged anyways in most of the cases, it's the offsetting that
> looks odd.
> 

Indeed I did: <http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/3/1/109>

-- 
Andy, BlueArc Engineering
 
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