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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:07:38 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070314170738.d5d35c06.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200703142006.04547.m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>

> On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 20:06:02 +0100 Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 	Today after +- 24h of uptime I found some more page allocation
> failures ('eth1: Can't allocate skb for Rx'). You'll find more here:
> 
> http://tuxland.pl/misc/2.6.21-rc3-mm1-page-allocation-failure.txt
> 
> System wasn't doing anything unusual, as usual ;-) X, some p2p 
> software, firefox+flash playing music.
> 

Do other kernels do this, or is 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 worse?

It is of course a non-fatal problem and will inevitably happen sometimes,
but we would like the VM to be able to minimise the occurrence of this
problem.

I think we were rather hoping that Mel's anti-fragmentation work would
improve things.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-15  0:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-08  4:18 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 Andrew Morton
2007-03-08  9:59 ` ext4, wireless (was Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1) Jeff Garzik
2007-03-08 14:50 ` 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 John W. Linville
2007-03-08 16:37   ` 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 Dave Jones
2007-03-08 17:56 ` 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-03-08 18:34   ` 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 John W. Linville
2007-03-08 20:27     ` 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-03-08 20:50 ` 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 Michal Piotrowski
2007-03-10  2:18   ` 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 Andrew Morton
2007-03-10 15:45     ` 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 Paul E. McKenney
     [not found]       ` <6bffcb0e0703111002t75a8ac51vcce7d52684e04a9d@mail.gmail.com>
2007-03-12  4:41         ` 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 Paul E. McKenney
2007-03-09 11:40 ` 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 Frederik Deweerdt
2007-03-15  9:22   ` ipw2200: can't load firmware (was Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1) Frederik Deweerdt
2007-03-10  8:33 ` 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 Mariusz Kozlowski
2007-03-10  8:48   ` 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 Mariusz Kozlowski
2007-03-10  8:58   ` 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 Andrew Morton
2007-03-10  9:18     ` 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 Greg KH
2007-03-10 12:43       ` 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 Jiri Kosina
2007-03-10 15:36         ` 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 Mariusz Kozlowski
2007-03-10 16:00           ` [linux-usb-devel] 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 Alan Stern
2007-03-10 16:36             ` Mariusz Kozlowski
2007-03-10 19:02               ` Alan Stern
2007-03-12 20:50                 ` Mariusz Kozlowski
2007-03-12 20:53                   ` Jiri Kosina
2007-03-10 13:32 ` 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 Mariusz Kozlowski
2007-03-12 18:14 ` 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 Radoslaw Szkodzinski
2007-03-14 19:06 ` 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 Mariusz Kozlowski
2007-03-15  1:07   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-03-15  6:09     ` 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 Mariusz Kozlowski
2007-03-15 10:16     ` 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 Mel Gorman
2007-03-15 15:37       ` 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 Mariusz Kozlowski
2007-03-15 19:59         ` 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 Mel Gorman
2007-03-16  6:43           ` 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 Mariusz Kozlowski
2007-03-16 10:03             ` 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 Mel Gorman
2007-03-17 18:26     ` [PATCH] Bias the location of pages freed for min_free_kbytes in the same MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES blocks Mel Gorman
2007-03-18  8:22       ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-18 11:35         ` Mel Gorman
2007-03-18 18:12           ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-18 19:05             ` Mel Gorman
2007-03-18 19:28               ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-18 20:08                 ` Mel Gorman
2007-03-18 20:45                   ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-18 22:21                     ` Mel Gorman

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