From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail191.messagelabs.com (mail191.messagelabs.com [216.82.242.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 050C7600044 for ; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:40:55 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 17:40:51 -0500 (CDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: 2.6.34.1 page allocation failure In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <4C70BFF3.8030507@hardwarefreak.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Pekka Enberg Cc: Mikael Abrahamsson , Stan Hoeppner , Linux Kernel List , linux-mm@kvack.org, Mel Gorman List-ID: On Sun, 22 Aug 2010, Pekka Enberg wrote: > In Stan's case, it's a order-1 GFP_ATOMIC allocation but there are > only order-0 pages available. Mel, any recent page allocator fixes in > 2.6.35 or 2.6.36-rc1 that Stan/Mikael should test? This is the TCP slab? Best fix would be in the page allocator. However, in this particular case the slub allocator would be able to fall back to an order 0 allocation and still satisfy the request. -- 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