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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 09:32:11 +0200
From: Steffen Persvold <sp@scali.no>
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To: Mike Galbraith <mikeg@wen-online.de>
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Subject: Re: __alloc_pages 4 order allocation failed
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Mike Galbraith wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Ho Chak Hung wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > but there isn't any call in the module to allocate 4 order pages. There are only calls to allocate 0 order pages. alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL, 0)is the only call to allocate page in the whole module.
> 
> Then it's not your module :)
> 
> Some driver may be asking for order 4, but settling for less when
> that fails.
> 
Why did this get worse on the 2.4 kernel ?. On 2.2 I always seemed to get my high order
allocations  and GFP_ATOMIC seldom failed when there was available memory.

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