Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751480Ab0HVWlA (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:41:00 -0400 Received: from smtp103.prem.mail.ac4.yahoo.com ([76.13.13.42]:33647 "HELO smtp103.prem.mail.ac4.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751324Ab0HVWk6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:40:58 -0400 X-Yahoo-SMTP: _Dag8S.swBC1p4FJKLCXbs8NQzyse1SYSgnAbY0- X-YMail-OSG: nyl21nsVM1mqf2zYpLbl8omJk9qMAmKwradcLQWm2jpLEph DeJJi79YNCLS4lhV0jgfahZZtA_qaQbVhoNk60oKwCLVeG.28AsbhpoC19xV Ts448m_N455Fx851zj1CVxg6Li81MoZgs5imLKve5eUZILuD6L6YWa3HGo8l j7KTbW2buuLw5Or6WXt6iC10EfioLq032qTbSsftILNqF1nsMuNCjKf89lA0 VVJHJoCdSa6DVfp6JvyS1AhBarGr9 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 17:40:51 -0500 (CDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: cl@router.home To: Pekka Enberg cc: Mikael Abrahamsson , Stan Hoeppner , Linux Kernel List , linux-mm@kvack.org, Mel Gorman Subject: Re: 2.6.34.1 page allocation failure In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <4C70BFF3.8030507@hardwarefreak.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 682 Lines: 16 On Sun, 22 Aug 2010, Pekka Enberg wrote: > In Stan's case, it's a order-1 GFP_ATOMIC allocation but there are > only order-0 pages available. Mel, any recent page allocator fixes in > 2.6.35 or 2.6.36-rc1 that Stan/Mikael should test? This is the TCP slab? Best fix would be in the page allocator. However, in this particular case the slub allocator would be able to fall back to an order 0 allocation and still satisfy the request. -- 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/