Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754730AbZJ0Mzw (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:55:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754554AbZJ0Mzv (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:55:51 -0400 Received: from Cpsmtpm-eml106.kpnxchange.com ([195.121.3.10]:55547 "EHLO CPSMTPM-EML106.kpnxchange.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752809AbZJ0Myi (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:54:38 -0400 From: Frans Pop To: reinette chatre Subject: Re: [Bug #14141] order 2 page allocation failures in iwlagn Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:10:27 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: Mel Gorman , David Rientjes , KOSAKI Motohiro , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kernel Testers List , Pekka Enberg , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Karol Lewandowski , "Abbas, Mohamed" , "John W. Linville" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" References: <3onW63eFtRF.A.xXH.oMTxKB@chimera> <200910152142.02876.elendil@planet.nl> <1255758143.21134.1360.camel@rc-desk> In-Reply-To: <1255758143.21134.1360.camel@rc-desk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200910271210.31014.elendil@planet.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Oct 2009 12:54:41.0014 (UTC) FILETIME=[A6026160:01CA5704] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1055 Lines: 25 Sorry for the delay in replying. On Saturday 17 October 2009, reinette chatre wrote: > Prompted by this thread we are in process of moving allocation to paged > skb. This will definitely reduce the allocation size (from order 2 to > order 1) and hopefully help with this problem also. Could you please try > with the attached two patches? They are based on 2.6.32-rc4. Looks very good! With these patches I no longer get any SKB allocation errors, even during the heaviest freezes while gitk is loading. I do still get (long) music skips during the freezes, but that's not unexpected. AFAICT the wireless connection is stable. Tested on top of current mainline git: v2.6.32-rc5-81-g964fe08. Please add, if you feel it's appropriate, my: Reported-and-tested-by: Frans Pop Cheers, FJP -- 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/