Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 11:28:54 +0100
From: Stefan Schmidt <zaphodb@zaphods.net>
To: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.10-rc1-mm4 -1 EAGAIN after allocation failure was: Re: Kernel 2.6.9 Multiple Page Allocation Failures
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On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 03:24:10PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Can you try the following patch, please? It is diffed against 2.6.10-rc1,
> but I think it should apply to -mm kernels as well.
> 
> Basically 2.6.8 and earlier kernels had some quirks in the page allocator
> that would allow for example, a large portion of "DMA" memory to be reserved
> for network memory allocations (atomic allocations). After 'fixing' this
> problem, 2.6.9 is effectively left with about a quarter the amount of memory
> reserved for network allocations compared with 2.6.8.
> 
> The following patch roughly restores parity there. Thanks.
I applied the patch to 2.6.10-rc1-mm4 and the application froze again, but i
just remembered that i changed a kernel-option in mm4 and forgot about that
yesterday:
I unset CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP and i suppose this could have this kind of effect
on high connection rates.
I set it back to CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP=y and if the application does not freeze
for some hours at this load we can blame at least this issue (-1 EAGAIN) on
that parameter.

My variation of Harrisberger's Fourth Law of the Lab:
 Experience is directly proportional to the amount of braincells ruined.

*ouch*,
	Stefan
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