Re: [2.6.37-rc1, OOM] virtblk: OOM in do_virtblk_request()

[Rusty Russell]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:01:51 am Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Rusty, Michael,
> 
> any comments?  I think Dave's observation is correct, and the lack of
> a mempool for allocations in the virtio stack is a no-go for virtio_blk.

Interesting.  virtio will try to fall back to using direct ring entries
if it can, but if course if your request is too large it can never do that.

So, we could add a memory pool, or restrict the request size in virtio_blk.

Any other thoughts?
Rusty.
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