Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751434AbZIHOpu (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Sep 2009 10:45:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751233AbZIHOpt (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Sep 2009 10:45:49 -0400 Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:42460 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751111AbZIHOpt (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Sep 2009 10:45:49 -0400 Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 10:17:01 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Pekka Enberg Cc: Mel Gorman , Frans Pop , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Andrew Morton , cl@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: iwlagn: order 2 page allocation failures Message-ID: <20090908141701.GB2617@tuxdriver.com> References: <200909060941.01810.elendil@planet.nl> <84144f020909060114s74de2d2y850745dd82ece753@mail.gmail.com> <200909061028.48442.elendil@planet.nl> <1252226116.11274.10.camel@penberg-laptop> <20090908105415.GD28127@csn.ul.ie> <84144f020909080411n4e010308qa153039bee1b8336@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <84144f020909080411n4e010308qa153039bee1b8336@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1058 Lines: 25 On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 02:11:35PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote: > On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Mel Gorman wrote: > > My feeling is also that a number of these page allocation failures have > > been related to wireless drivers. Is that accurate? If so, have there > > been changes made to the wireless stack in this cycle that would have > > increased the order of pages allocated? > > That's my general feeling as well. We have linux-wireless CC'd so > maybe this rings a bell for them. AFAIK, this is only the second separate report. The other related to ipw2200, which actually shares no code with the iwlagn driver and is not based on the mac80211 stack. Hth! John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready. -- 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/