From db9f600b96c16bb3c7f094e294fbdd370226ad86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miquel van Smoorenburg Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 10:31:25 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] x86: pci-dma.c: use __GFP_NO_OOM instead of __GFP_NORETRY On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 04:47 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > So... why not just remove the setting of __GFP_NORETRY? Why is it > > wrong to oom-kill things in this case? > > When the 16MB zone overflows (which can be common in some workloads) > calling the OOM killer is pretty useless because it has barely any > real user data [only exception would be the "only 16MB" case Alan > mentioned]. Killing random processes in this case is bad. > > I think for 16MB __GFP_NORETRY is ok because there should be > nothing freeable in there so looping is useless. Only exception would be the > "only 16MB total" case again but I'm not sure 2.6 supports that at all > on x86. > > On the other hand d_a_c() does more allocations than just 16MB, especially > on 64bit and the other zones need different strategies. Okay, so how about this then ? Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c b/arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c index c5ef1af8e79..069e843f0b9 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c @@ -397,9 +397,6 @@ dma_alloc_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size, dma_addr_t *dma_handle, if (dev->dma_mask == NULL) return NULL; - /* Don't invoke OOM killer */ - gfp |= __GFP_NORETRY; - #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64 /* Why <=? Even when the mask is smaller than 4GB it is often larger than 16MB and in this case we have a chance of @@ -410,7 +407,9 @@ dma_alloc_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size, dma_addr_t *dma_handle, #endif again: - page = dma_alloc_pages(dev, gfp, get_order(size)); + /* Don't invoke OOM killer or retry in lower 16MB DMA zone */ + page = dma_alloc_pages(dev, + (gfp & GFP_DMA) ? gfp | __GFP_NORETRY : gfp, get_order(size)); if (page == NULL) return NULL; -- 2.41.1