From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 16:27:43 +1000 From: Anton Blanchard Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] beat kswapd with the proverbial clue-bat Message-ID: <20040905062743.GG7716@krispykreme> References: <413AA7B2.4000907@yahoo.com.au> <20040904230939.03da8d2d.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040904230939.03da8d2d.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Nick Piggin , torvalds@osdl.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > 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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org