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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: "Abu M. Muttalib" <abum@aftek.com>
Cc: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>,
	"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@mbligh.org>,
	Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Page Allocation Failure, Why?? Bug in kernel??
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:43:23 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <447FEC1B.80205@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BKEKJNIHLJDCFGDBOHGMEEJNCNAA.abum@aftek.com>

Abu M. Muttalib wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I repeat my question, the required no of pages are available, as shown in
> the dump produced by kernel, the request is not fulfilled. Its as follows:
> 
> DMA: 106*4kB 11*8kB 5*16kB 3*32kB 2*64kB 1*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB =
> 944kB
> 
> Why this is so??

Because some are kept in "emergency pools" for allocators that cannot
sleep trying to free up memory.

Teach the sound driver to use smaller buffers or just insert it at boot
and leave it inserted. Why are you removing it then reinserting it?

-- 
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-06-02  7:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-01  9:26 Page Allocation Failure, Why?? Bug in kernel?? Abu M. Muttalib
2006-06-01 13:25 ` Paulo Marques
2006-06-01 13:51   ` Abu M. Muttalib
2006-06-01 14:59     ` Martin J. Bligh
2006-06-02  6:26       ` Abu M. Muttalib
2006-06-02  7:05         ` Jesper Juhl
2006-06-02  7:21           ` Abu M. Muttalib
2006-06-02  7:39             ` Dave Airlie
2006-06-02  7:43             ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2006-06-02  7:53               ` Jesper Juhl
2006-06-02  8:41                 ` Abu M. Muttalib

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