Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261190AbVCAB3m (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:29:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261197AbVCAB3m (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:29:42 -0500 Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10]:2339 "EHLO pd4mo2so.prod.shaw.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261190AbVCAB3i (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:29:38 -0500 Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:29:34 -0600 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: swapper: page allocation failure. order:1, mode:0x20 In-reply-to: <1109640134.4229.15.camel@desktop.cunningham.myip.net.au> To: linux-kernel Message-id: <4223C57E.1070407@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <3CRTy-82M-27@gated-at.bofh.it> <4223C121.6090904@shaw.ca> <1109640134.4229.15.camel@desktop.cunningham.myip.net.au> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 814 Lines: 21 Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Hi. > > On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 12:10, Robert Hancock wrote: > >>Bernd Schubert wrote: >>Essentially the tg3 Ethernet driver is trying to allocate memory to >>store a received packet, and is unable to do so. Since this is done >>inside interrupt context, this allocation has to be serviced from >>physical memory. Order 1 means it only wanted one page of memory, and > > > Minor point, I know, but it's 2 pages of memory. If it couldn't get an > order zero page, that would be even greater hernia material! Indeed.. off-by-one error :-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/