Re: [Bug #14141] order 2 page allocation failures in iwlagn

Frans Pop
2009-10-02T10:01:32Z

On Friday 02 October 2009, Mel Gorman wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 11:11:52AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> > My own feeling is that Bartlomiej is correct and that something has
> > changed since .29 and that on average we do have less higher order
> > areas available after the system has been in use for some time, but I
> > can't substantiate that. I do know that before .30 I had never seen
> > the SKB allocation errors.
> >
> > Main problem is that it's hard to deliberately and reproducibly get
> > the system in a state where the errors occur.
>
> Apparently, Karol Lewandowski (cc added) has a reliable
> reproduction case for when the firmware loading problem occurs
> (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/9/30/242). While it's not the same problem
> exactly, it's probable they're related. I'm hoping the problem commit
> can be identified by his bisection whenever he gets around to it.

That does indeed look like a third independent report for basically the
same issue.

> [...], I accept that the problem is apparently occuring more now than it
> did so something has changed that is not obvious to normal testing.

Cool, that's progress ;-)