Re: [Bug #13319] Page allocation failures with b43 and p54usb

Christoph Lameter
2009-06-08T14:42:38Z

On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Mel Gorman wrote:

> In addition, include how many objects there are per-slab and include what
> the order is being passed to the page allocator when allocating new slabs.
> Would that be enough to determine if fallback-to-smaller orders occured?

There is a per slab counter ORDER_FALLBACK that is increased for
allocations that required fallback.