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

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Thu Mar 02 2006 - 07:16:45 EST


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

-Andi
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