Re: Hard Hang with __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x20/1) - Not out of memory

Marcelo Tosatti
2004-05-25T22:52:27Z

On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 02:20:23PM -0700, Feldman, Scott wrote:
> Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
> > It seems we are calling alloc_skb(GFP_KERNEL) from inside an
> > interrupt handler. Oops.
>
> We're calling dev_alloc_skb() from hard interrupt context, but it uses
> GFP_ATOMIC, not GFP_KERNEL, so this is OK, right? I don't see the
> problem with e1000.

Scott,

I'm full of sh*t, just ignore me.