From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: reinette chatre Subject: Re: [Bug #14141] order 2 page allocation failures in iwlagn Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:15:16 -0700 Message-ID: <1256660116.21134.9172.camel@rc-desk> References: <3onW63eFtRF.A.xXH.oMTxKB@chimera> <200910152142.02876.elendil@planet.nl> <1255758143.21134.1360.camel@rc-desk> <200910271210.31014.elendil@planet.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200910271210.31014.elendil-EIBgga6/0yRmR6Xm/wNWPw@public.gmane.org> Sender: kernel-testers-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Frans Pop Cc: Mel Gorman , David Rientjes , KOSAKI Motohiro , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kernel Testers List , Pekka Enberg , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Karol Lewandowski , "Abbas, Mohamed" , "John W. Linville" , "linux-mm-Bw31MaZKKs3YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org" Hi Frans, On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 04:10 -0700, Frans Pop wrote: > Sorry for the delay in replying. > > On Saturday 17 October 2009, reinette chatre wrote: > > Prompted by this thread we are in process of moving allocation to paged > > skb. This will definitely reduce the allocation size (from order 2 to > > order 1) and hopefully help with this problem also. Could you please try > > with the attached two patches? They are based on 2.6.32-rc4. > > Looks very good! With these patches I no longer get any SKB allocation > errors, even during the heaviest freezes while gitk is loading. I do still > get (long) music skips during the freezes, but that's not unexpected. > AFAICT the wireless connection is stable. > > Tested on top of current mainline git: v2.6.32-rc5-81-g964fe08. > > Please add, if you feel it's appropriate, my: > Reported-and-tested-by: Frans Pop Thank you very much for testing these patches so thoroughly. They are both on their way upstream already so I am not able to add your signature at this time. Since these are pretty big changes these patches will be in 2.6.33. Reinette