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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
To: Roland Dreier <rdreier-FYB4Gu1CFyUAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Tziporet Koren <tziporet-VPRAkNaXOzVS1MOuV/RT9w@public.gmane.org>,
	linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: mode connected infiniband
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:29:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100120192949.GI16490@obsidianresearch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <adar5pl37ky.fsf-BjVyx320WGW9gfZ95n9DRSW4+XlvGpQz@public.gmane.org>

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 05:09:49PM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
> 
>  > The last time I tried to use it the kernel began reporting lots of
>  > OOM events (2.6.30 stock). I thought this was well known because CM
>  > mode uses high order allocations??
> 
> That's not well-known to me.  What's the backtrace for those high-order
> allocations?  I thought the CM code was careful to allocate receive
> buffers using page-size fragments but maybe there's some other path (skb
> rings, QP/CQ structures?) that does a higher-order alloc.

Hmm, I'll keep an eye out then. I've seen it several times in very
different systems, usually just turn CM mode off and it goes
away. Unfortunately I have no systems like that now and I didn't keep
the traces... The traces did have ipoib function calls.

Jason
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-01-20 19:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-14  8:11 mode connected infiniband Nico
     [not found] ` <8fd3bb681001140011k5ec9492eg19b59b110e45a2b5-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2010-01-14 16:06   ` Frank Leers
2010-01-14 17:22   ` Roland Dreier
     [not found]     ` <adabpgwmwiw.fsf-BjVyx320WGW9gfZ95n9DRSW4+XlvGpQz@public.gmane.org>
2010-01-16 13:42       ` Nico
2010-01-17  8:03       ` Tziporet Koren
     [not found]         ` <4B52C456.5030501-VPRAkNaXOzVS1MOuV/RT9w@public.gmane.org>
2010-01-18  2:56           ` Jason Gunthorpe
     [not found]             ` <20100118025626.GG9059-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2010-01-20  1:09               ` Roland Dreier
     [not found]                 ` <ab66a8181001200002n120af0e7m3733b42a945dc06b@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]                   ` <ab66a8181001200002n120af0e7m3733b42a945dc06b-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2010-01-20 19:21                     ` Roland Dreier
     [not found]                 ` <adar5pl37ky.fsf-BjVyx320WGW9gfZ95n9DRSW4+XlvGpQz@public.gmane.org>
2010-01-20 19:29                   ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2010-01-20  1:10               ` Roland Dreier

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