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From: Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Igor Plyatov <plyatov@gmail.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: rt2800usb: page allocation failure
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:55:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110413075545.GA18716@sig21.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DA4FE7C.8070807@lwfinger.net>

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 08:38:04PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 04/12/2011 04:22 PM, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> >
> >I don't think the allocation uses the MTU, rather rt2x00queue_alloc_rxskb()
> >uses some hw specific constants.  No idea if these can be reduced,
> >but multi-page GFP_ATOMIC allocations can easily fail.
> 
> That is likely. Those hw specific constants add up to 40 bytes, thus
> the major part is actual buffer. That is set at 3840 bytes, thus I
> don't understand why the request was order 1.

An skb has quite a bit of overhead, there's full
struct skb_shared_info inside, plus some padding.
See dev_alloc_skb() -> __alloc_skb().
If think that pushes it above 4096 bytes.

Johannes

      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-04-13  7:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-12 15:38 rt2800usb: page allocation failure Igor Plyatov
2011-04-12 18:00 ` Larry Finger
2011-04-12 21:22   ` Johannes Stezenbach
2011-04-13  1:38     ` Larry Finger
2011-04-13  7:54       ` Helmut Schaa
2011-04-13  7:55       ` Johannes Stezenbach [this message]

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