netdev - Re: Page allocation failures in guest

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Date:	Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:55:01 +0200
From:	Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@...eus.cx>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>, Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Page allocation failures in guest

On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:47:17 +0930
Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:55:48 am Pierre Ossman wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:01:52 +0930
> > Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> wrote:
> > > Subject: virtio: net refill on out-of-memory
> ... 
> > Patch applied. Now we wait. :)
> 
> Any results?
> 

It's been up for 12 days, so I'd say it works. But there is nothing in
dmesg, which suggests I haven't triggered the condition yet.

I wonder if there might be something broken with Fedora's kernel. :/
(I am running the same upstream version, and their conf, for this test,
but not all of their patches)

Rgds
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