From: Steffen Persvold <sp@scali.no>
To: Mike Galbraith <mikeg@wen-online.de>
Cc: Ho Chak Hung <hunghochak@netscape.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: __alloc_pages 4 order allocation failed
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 09:32:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B4D527B.786F7461@scali.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107111925250.371-100000@mikeg.weiden.de>
Mike Galbraith wrote:
>
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Ho Chak Hung wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > but there isn't any call in the module to allocate 4 order pages. There are only calls to allocate 0 order pages. alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL, 0)is the only call to allocate page in the whole module.
>
> Then it's not your module :)
>
> Some driver may be asking for order 4, but settling for less when
> that fails.
>
Why did this get worse on the 2.4 kernel ?. On 2.2 I always seemed to get my high order
allocations and GFP_ATOMIC seldom failed when there was available memory.
Regards,
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[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107110720200.709-100000@mikeg.weiden.de>
2001-07-11 17:19 ` __alloc_pages 4 order allocation failed Ho Chak Hung
2001-07-11 17:31 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-07-12 7:32 ` Steffen Persvold [this message]
2001-07-12 11:19 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-07-10 22:01 Ho Chak Hung
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