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

Frans Pop
2009-10-14T21:33:26Z

On Wednesday 14 October 2009, reinette chatre wrote:
> We do queue the GFP_KERNEL allocations when there are only a few buffers
> remaining in the queue (8 right now) ...

Are you sure of this? I have zero messages in my logs about allocation
failures with GFP_KERNEL, but I do have plenty with "Only 0 free buffers
remaining" with GFP_ATOMIC.

Does that indicate a bug or could they fall under the ratelimit somehow?
Or do I misunderstand the logic?

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