From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262554AbULCSiP (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Dec 2004 13:38:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262729AbULCSiP (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Dec 2004 13:38:15 -0500 Received: from hell.sks3.muni.cz ([147.251.210.30]:22216 "EHLO hell.sks3.muni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262554AbULCSh4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Dec 2004 13:37:56 -0500 Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 19:37:34 +0100 From: Lukas Hejtmanek To: Nick Piggin Cc: Andrew Morton , Francois Romieu , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.9 - e1000 - page allocation failed Message-ID: <20041203183734.GA29437@mail.muni.cz> References: <20041021221622.GA11607@mail.muni.cz> <20041021225825.GA10844@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <20041022025158.7737182c.akpm@osdl.org> <20041022120821.GA12619@mail.muni.cz> <417900D6.4030902@yahoo.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <417900D6.4030902@yahoo.com.au> X-echelon: NSA, CIA, CI5, MI5, FBI, KGB, BIS, Plutonium, Bin Laden, bomb User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 10:45:10PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > >>a back-to-back GFP_ATOMIC allocation of 256 skbs could easily exhaust the > >>page allocator pools. > >> > >>Probably this machine needs to increase /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes. > > > > > >It did not help. > > > > What did you increase it to? What was the allocation failure message? Sorry for late answer I missed this mail. I increased it to 10MB and failuer message was the same... -- Lukáš Hejtmánek