With Daniel Phillips Patch (was: aic7xxx with 2.4.9 on 7899P)

Sven Heinicke
2001-08-21T14:42:26Z

Forgive the sin of replying to my own message but Daniel Phillips
replied to a different message with a patch to somebody getting a
similar error to mine. Here is the result:

Aug 20 15:10:33 ps1 kernel: cation failed (gfp=0x30/1).
Aug 20 15:10:33 ps1 kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
(gfp=0x30/1).
Aug 20 15:10:46 ps1 last message repeated 327 times
Aug 20 15:10:47 ps1 kernel: cation failed (gfp=0x30/1).
Aug 20 15:10:47 ps1 kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
(gfp=0x30/1).
Aug 20 15:10:56 ps1 last message repeated 294 times

Sven Heinicke writes:
>
> It's always a blessing and a curse when people seem to be haveing
> problems with the same drivers as you. I started looking into this
> when I user complained about disk access time. I think this is
> related to the running aic7xxx topics.
>
> From my tests, I got a Dell 4400 who's Adaptec 7899P, according to
> bonnie++, was writing slower then some of my my IDE drives on a
> different system. I tried Red Hat's 2.4.3-12smp kernel and got a
> little improvement. I then built 2.4.9 and started running bonnie++
> again and my syslog gets filled up with such errors:
>
> Aug 20 14:23:33 ps1 kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order all
> Aug 20 14:23:36 ps1 last message repeated 376 times
> Aug 20 14:23:36 ps1 kernel: ed.
> Aug 20 14:23:36 ps1 kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order all
> Aug 20 14:23:44 ps1 last message repeated 376 times
> Aug 20 14:23:44 ps1 kernel: ed.
> Aug 20 14:23:44 ps1 kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order all
> Aug 20 14:23:44 ps1 last message repeated 363 times
>
> With slow access time. Please request more info if you think it might
> help.
>
> Sven
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