From: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
To: reinette chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [Bug #14141] order 2 page allocation failures in iwlagn
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:33:26 +0200
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On Wednesday 14 October 2009, reinette chatre wrote:
> We do queue the GFP_KERNEL allocations when there are only a few buffers
> remaining in the queue (8 right now) ...

Are you sure of this? I have zero messages in my logs about allocation 
failures with GFP_KERNEL, but I do have plenty with "Only 0 free buffers 
remaining" with GFP_ATOMIC.

Does that indicate a bug or could they fall under the ratelimit somehow?
Or do I misunderstand the logic?
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