Le jeudi 17 mai 2007 à 00:20 +1000, Nick Piggin a écrit :
> Mel Gorman wrote:
> 
> > ======
> > 
> > On third thought: The trouble with this solution is that we will now set
> > the order to that used by the largest kmalloc cache. Bad... this could be
> > 6 on i386 to 13 if CONFIG_LARGE_ALLOCs is set. The large kmalloc caches are
> > rarely used and we are used to OOMing if those are utilized to frequently.
> > 
> > I guess we should only set this for non kmalloc caches then. 
> > So move the call into kmem_cache_create? Would make the min order 3 on
> > most of my mm machines.
> > ===
> 
> Also, I might add that the e1000 page allocations failures usually come
> from kmalloc, so doing this means they might just be protected by chance
> if someone happens to create a kmem cache of order 3.

The system on which the patches were tested does not include an e1000
card

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot