From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail172.messagelabs.com (mail172.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.3]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 67F386B005A for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:55:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Frans Pop Subject: Re: [Bug #14141] order 2 page allocation failures in iwlagn Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:10:27 +0100 References: <3onW63eFtRF.A.xXH.oMTxKB@chimera> <200910152142.02876.elendil@planet.nl> <1255758143.21134.1360.camel@rc-desk> In-Reply-To: <1255758143.21134.1360.camel@rc-desk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200910271210.31014.elendil@planet.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: reinette chatre 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@kvack.org" List-ID: 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 Cheers, FJP -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org