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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Jonathan Haws <Jonathan.Haws@sdl.usu.edu>
Cc: "linux-net@vger.kernel.org" <linux-net@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Memory allocation modifications in ibm_newemac driver
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:18:50 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1283401130.16240.9.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5ABE8A5E96C0364CAF2B4DC1DEB7CEAC127A305B@Mercury.usurf.usu.edu>

On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 22:46 +0000, Jonathan Haws wrote:
> 
> Can anyone explain to me why I would be getting this error in the
> first place?  Why is it failing to allocate a page when there are
> pages available?  That does not make any sense to me.

order:1

It's failing to allocate -two- pages.

Cheers,
Ben.

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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Jonathan Haws <Jonathan.Haws@sdl.usu.edu>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-net@vger.kernel.org" <linux-net@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Subject: RE: Memory allocation modifications in ibm_newemac driver
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:18:50 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1283401130.16240.9.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5ABE8A5E96C0364CAF2B4DC1DEB7CEAC127A305B@Mercury.usurf.usu.edu>

On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 22:46 +0000, Jonathan Haws wrote:
> 
> Can anyone explain to me why I would be getting this error in the
> first place?  Why is it failing to allocate a page when there are
> pages available?  That does not make any sense to me.

order:1

It's failing to allocate -two- pages.

Cheers,
Ben.



  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-02  4:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-01 20:41 Memory allocation modifications in ibm_newemac driver Jonathan Haws
2010-09-01 21:18 ` Jonathan Haws
2010-09-01 21:18   ` Jonathan Haws
2010-09-01 22:04   ` Jonathan Haws
2010-09-01 22:04     ` Jonathan Haws
2010-09-01 22:46     ` Jonathan Haws
2010-09-01 22:46       ` Jonathan Haws
2010-09-02  4:18       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2010-09-02  4:18         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-09-02 15:54         ` Memory allocation modifications in ibm_newemac driver AND sil24 driver Jonathan Haws
2010-09-02 15:54           ` Jonathan Haws
2010-09-02  4:18     ` Memory allocation modifications in ibm_newemac driver Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-09-02  4:18       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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