From: Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh@xs4all.nl>
To: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: What to do with `kswapd0: page allocation failure. ` ?
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 07:44:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <488C0B41.9080905@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <488B8396.6000909@shaw.ca>
Robert Hancock wrote:
>> I can reproduce this by wget'ing a 5.xGB file from my MythTV box.
>> The receiving end is a Fedora 9, AMD x86_64 box with an Abit m56s-s3
>> board using nVidia Corporation MCP65 Ethernet (rev a3).
>> It uses the forcedeth: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver.
>> Version 0.61.
>>
>> Should I forward this info to someone so this could be fixed?
>> Someone doing the kernel memory management?
>> Or forcedeth?
>> Or?
>>
>> Please let me know.
>
> The fact you're using jumbo frames makes this more noticeable, since it
> needs a 9000 byte chunk of memory to receive the packet, which means
> that it needs to allocate a 16KB chunk of memory. This means that even
> if memory is not full, it can be that no sufficiently large chunk of
> memory is available.
>
> Quite likely something could be done to improve this, yes..
What can/should I do?
I am not a programmer but can build kernels, apply patches, do testing, etc.
Kind regards,
Udo
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2008-07-26 20:05 ` What to do with `kswapd0: page allocation failure. ` ? Robert Hancock
2008-07-27 5:44 ` Udo van den Heuvel [this message]
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2008-07-25 18:54 ` Robert Hancock
2008-07-26 4:41 ` Udo van den Heuvel
2008-07-25 13:26 Udo van den Heuvel
2008-07-25 21:13 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-07-26 4:43 ` Udo van den Heuvel
2008-07-26 9:47 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-07-26 10:33 ` Udo van den Heuvel
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