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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	torvalds@osdl.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] beat kswapd with the proverbial clue-bat
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 16:27:43 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040905062743.GG7716@krispykreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040904230939.03da8d2d.akpm@osdl.org>

> There have been few reports, and I believe that networking is getting
> changed to reduce the amount of GFP_ATOMIC higher-order allocation
> attempts.

FYI I seem to remember issues on loopback due to its large MTU. Also the
printk_ratelimit stuff first appeared because the e1000 was spewing so
many higher order page allocation failures on some boxes.

But yes, the e1000 guys were going to look into multiple buffer mode so
they dont need a high order allocation.

Anton
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-09-05  6:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-05  5:44 Nick Piggin
2004-09-05  5:45 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/3] account free buddy areas Nick Piggin
2004-09-05  5:46   ` [RFC][PATCH 2/3] alloc-order watermarks Nick Piggin
2004-09-05  5:47     ` [RFC][PATCH 3/3] teach kswapd about watermarks Nick Piggin
2004-09-05  6:04       ` David S. Miller
2004-09-05  6:20         ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-05  5:50     ` [RFC][PATCH 2/3] alloc-order watermarks Nick Piggin
2004-09-05  6:13   ` [RFC][PATCH 1/3] account free buddy areas Nick Piggin
2004-09-05  6:02 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/3] beat kswapd with the proverbial clue-bat David S. Miller
2004-09-05  6:16   ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-05 10:13     ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-05 17:24       ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-05 17:36         ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-09-05 17:37         ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-05 17:58           ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-05 18:41             ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-06  1:35             ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-15 13:27             ` Jörn Engel
2004-09-15 13:29               ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-15 13:34                 ` Jörn Engel
2004-09-15 13:39                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-15 14:18                     ` Jörn Engel
2004-09-06  1:09         ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-05  6:09 ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-05  6:26   ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-05  6:27   ` Anton Blanchard [this message]
2004-09-05 10:09     ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-06  3:33       ` David S. Miller
2004-09-06  8:55         ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-05 16:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-06  0:54   ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-06  1:49     ` Nick Piggin

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