Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932269AbVIRXLc (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Sep 2005 19:11:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932265AbVIRXLb (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Sep 2005 19:11:31 -0400 Received: from electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com ([213.41.134.224]:21691 "EHLO fr.zoreil.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932261AbVIRXLa (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Sep 2005 19:11:30 -0400 Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 01:08:22 +0200 From: Francois Romieu To: Dan Aloni Cc: Linux Kernel List , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Nick Piggin Subject: Re: workaround large MTU and N-order allocation failures Message-ID: <20050918230822.GA5440@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> References: <20050918143526.GA24181@localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050918143526.GA24181@localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Organisation: Land of Sunshine Inc. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 559 Lines: 16 Dan Aloni : [...] > The problem with large MTU is external memory fragmentation in > the buddy system following high workload, causing alloc_skb() to > fail. If the issue hits the Rx path, it is probably the responsibility of the device driver. Which kind of hardware do you use ? -- Ueimor - 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/