From: reinette chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>,
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
"ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net"
<ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"cl@linux-foundation.org" <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
"Krauss, Assaf" <assaf.krauss@intel.com>,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
"Abbas, Mohamed" <mohamed.abbas@intel.com>
Subject: Re: iwlagn: order 2 page allocation failures
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:14:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1252617290.30150.321.camel@rc-desk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090910090206.GA22276@csn.ul.ie>
On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 02:02 -0700, Mel Gorman wrote:
>
> As a total aside, there is still the problem that the driver is depending on
> order-2 allocations. On systems without swap, the allocation problem could be
> more severe as there are fewer pages the system can use to regain contiguity.
I looked more at the implementation and hardware interface but I do not
see a way around this. We have to provide 8k buffer to device, and we
have to make sure it is aligned.
Do you have any suggestions?
Reinette
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-10 21:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-06 7:40 iwlagn: order 2 page allocation failures Frans Pop
2009-09-06 8:14 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-06 8:28 ` Frans Pop
2009-09-06 8:35 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-08 10:54 ` Mel Gorman
2009-09-08 11:11 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-08 14:17 ` John W. Linville
2009-09-08 14:59 ` Larry Finger
2009-09-09 15:04 ` Mel Gorman
2009-09-09 15:59 ` Frans Pop
2009-09-09 16:55 ` Mel Gorman
2009-09-09 17:19 ` Frans Pop
2009-09-16 14:36 ` Frans Pop
2009-09-16 15:02 ` Mel Gorman
2009-09-16 15:37 ` Frans Pop
2009-09-16 16:26 ` reinette chatre
2009-09-09 20:05 ` reinette chatre
2009-09-10 1:48 ` Frans Pop
2009-09-10 9:02 ` Mel Gorman
2009-09-10 18:15 ` reinette chatre
2009-09-10 18:43 ` Frans Pop
2009-09-10 18:50 ` reinette chatre
2009-09-11 8:45 ` Mel Gorman
2009-09-11 16:14 ` reinette chatre
2009-09-10 21:14 ` reinette chatre [this message]
2009-09-11 8:47 ` Mel Gorman
2009-09-14 3:01 ` Zhu Yi
2009-09-14 13:06 ` Mel Gorman
2009-09-15 8:30 ` alloc skb based on a given data buffer Zhu Yi
2009-09-15 8:33 ` David Miller
2009-09-15 8:57 ` Zhu Yi
2009-09-15 9:09 ` David Miller
2009-09-15 9:15 ` Zhu Yi
2009-09-15 15:30 ` Johannes Berg
2009-09-15 21:16 ` David Miller
2009-09-19 5:56 ` Johannes Berg
2009-09-14 15:42 ` iwlagn: order 2 page allocation failures Christoph Lameter
2009-09-14 17:59 ` Mel Gorman
2009-09-14 18:04 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-09-10 8:18 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-10 12:34 ` Mel Gorman
2009-09-10 12:39 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-10 12:58 ` Mel Gorman
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