From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail172.messagelabs.com (mail172.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.3]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7839F6B004F for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:17:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:17:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Tobias Oetiker Subject: Re: [Bug #14141] order 2 page allocation failures (generic) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <3onW63eFtRF.A.xXH.oMTxKB@chimera> <200910190133.33183.elendil@planet.nl> <1255912562.6824.9.camel@penberg-laptop> <200910190444.55867.elendil@planet.nl> <20091019133146.GB9036@csn.ul.ie> <20091019140957.GE9036@csn.ul.ie> <20091019145954.GH9036@csn.ul.ie> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Mel Gorman Cc: Frans Pop , Pekka Enberg , David Rientjes , KOSAKI Motohiro , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Reinette Chatre , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Karol Lewandowski , Mohamed Abbas , "John W. Linville" , linux-mm@kvack.org, jens.axboe@oracle.com List-ID: Hi Mel, Today Tobias Oetiker wrote: > Hi Mel, > > Today Mel Gorman wrote: > > > > > > > if you can send me a consolidated patch which does apply to > > > 2.6.31.4 I will be glad to try ... > > > > > > > Sure > > > > ==== CUT HERE ==== > > > > From 6c0215af3b7c39ef7b8083ea38ca3ad93cd3f51f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > > From: Mel Gorman > > Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:40:43 +0100 > > Subject: [PATCH] Kick off kswapd after direct reclaim and revert congestion changes > > > > The following patch is http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/16/89 on top of > > 2.6.31.4 as well as patches 373c0a7e and 8aa7e847 reverted. > > it seems to help ... the server has been running for 3 hours now > without incident, but then again it is not as active as during the > day, ... will report tomorrow. while I was writing, the system found that the patch does not realy help: Oct 19 22:09:52 johan kernel: [11157.121506] smtpd: page allocation failure. order:5, mode:0x4020 [kern.warning] Oct 19 22:09:52 johan kernel: [11157.121514] Pid: 19324, comm: smtpd Tainted: G D 2.6.31.4-oep #1 [kern.warning] Oct 19 22:09:52 johan kernel: [11157.121518] Call Trace: [kern.warning] Oct 19 22:09:52 johan kernel: [11157.121521] [] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x549/0x650 [kern.warning] Oct 19 22:09:52 johan kernel: [11157.121563] [] ? __nf_ct_refresh_acct+0xab/0x110 [nf_conntrack] [kern.warning] Oct 19 22:09:52 johan kernel: [11157.121572] [] ? ipt_do_table+0x2f7/0x610 [ip_tables] [kern.warning] Oct 19 22:09:52 johan kernel: [11157.121580] [] kmalloc_large_node+0x68/0xc0 [kern.warning] Oct 19 22:09:52 johan kernel: [11157.121585] [] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x11a/0x180 [kern.warning] Oct 19 22:09:52 johan kernel: [11157.121592] [] ? skb_copy+0x32/0xa0 [kern.warning] Oct 19 22:09:52 johan kernel: [11157.121596] [] __alloc_skb+0x76/0x180 [kern.warning] Oct 19 22:09:52 johan kernel: [11157.121600] [] skb_copy+0x32/0xa0 [kern.warning] Oct 19 22:09:52 johan kernel: [11157.121615] [] vboxNetFltLinuxPacketHandler+0x5c/0xd0 [vboxnetflt] [kern.warning] Oct 19 22:09:52 johan kernel: [11157.121620] [] dev_hard_start_xmit+0x142/0x320 [kern.warning] Oct 19 22:09:52 johan kernel: [11157.121632] [] __qdisc_run+0x1a1/0x230 [kern.warning] Oct 19 22:09:52 johan kernel: [11157.121637] [] dev_queue_xmit+0x2b0/0x3a0 [kern.warning] Oct 19 22:09:52 johan kernel: [11157.121642] [] ip_finish_output+0x11b/0x2f0 [kern.warning] Oct 19 22:09:52 johan kernel: [11157.121646] [] ip_output+0x89/0xd0 [kern.warning] Oct 19 22:09:52 johan kernel: [11157.121650] [] ip_local_out+0x20/0x30 [kern.warning] Oct 19 22:09:52 johan kernel: [11157.121654] [] ip_queue_xmit+0x22b/0x3f0 [kern.warning] cheers tobi -- Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland http://it.oetiker.ch tobi@oetiker.ch ++41 62 775 9902 / sb: -9900 -- 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: email@kvack.org