Re: OOM-killer too aggressive?

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On Sun, 27 Feb 2006, Andi Kleen wrote:

> Thinking about this more I think we need a __GFP_NOOOM for other
> purposes too. e.g. the x86-64 IOMMU code tries to do similar
> fallbacks and I suspect it will be hit by the OOM killer too.

Isnt this also a constrained allocation? We could expand the check to also 
catch these types of restrictions and fail.

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