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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Zdenek Kabelac <zdenek.kabelac@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	yi.zhu@intel.com, reinette.chatre@intel.com,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problem: Out of memory after 2days with 2GB RAM
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:19:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1213280390.3936.21.camel@johannes.berg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c4e36d110806120712h1237d084v2eaeb494cc48b43c@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20080612_161221_904883_AD0B167C)

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> >> It looks like this is because it wants to allocate 2**5 contiguous
> >> pages, which is 128kB of contiguous kernel memory.
> >
> > 64-bit system I assume?
> > The allocation should be 256 * 20 * sizeof(struct sk_buff *).
> >
> > Try the patch below. It should improve code generation too.
> 
> I'll surely try you patch - but is the iwl the only driver which needs
> 128kB continuous memory chunk?

I don't know. But I think it'll probably fail right after, trying to
allocate a 32kb buffer with pci_alloc_something....

johannes

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-12 14:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <c4e36d110806120307n20cce692s9c136f11596f5ab0@mail.gmail.com>
2008-06-12 13:38 ` Problem: Out of memory after 2days with 2GB RAM Rik van Riel
2008-06-12 13:54   ` Johannes Berg
2008-06-12 14:12     ` Zdenek Kabelac
2008-06-12 14:19       ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2008-06-12 16:38       ` Tomas Winkler
2008-06-12 15:43     ` Tomas Winkler
2008-06-12 16:35       ` Tomas Winkler
2008-06-12 17:05         ` Johannes Berg
2008-06-12 17:39           ` Tomas Winkler
2008-06-12 17:46             ` Johannes Berg
2008-06-12 18:03               ` Tomas Winkler
2008-06-12 18:15                 ` Johannes Berg
2008-06-12 20:11                   ` Zdenek Kabelac
2008-06-12 22:17                     ` Tomas Winkler
2008-06-13  0:43                     ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-12 18:41               ` John W. Linville
2008-06-12 17:03       ` Johannes Berg
2008-06-12 17:35         ` Tomas Winkler
2008-06-12 17:39           ` Johannes Berg
2008-06-12 17:50             ` Tomas Winkler
2008-06-12 17:10       ` Rik van Riel
2008-06-12 21:30       ` Jiri Slaby
2008-06-12 22:26         ` Tomas Winkler

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