From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751278AbWFBHnc (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jun 2006 03:43:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751279AbWFBHnc (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jun 2006 03:43:32 -0400 Received: from smtp104.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.85.214]:49056 "HELO smtp104.mail.mud.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751278AbWFBHnc (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jun 2006 03:43:32 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.au; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:X-Accept-Language:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=t3/hjyK4xv4U3w4KWJRZUTT08+BCMD8ewE9LcMiaiM9Pe5eFo5IU9ba2nFwTAk+bAC5fNzGr+fupypJyvCHT8cnQuaiwDYoMgh0+Ia0+gc0Nou1E8JOVnrmN8B7OLvHKVcUg+G8nbdqKJHNrSHvINQKBvCdQwGy8IcbNYN/cPzs= ; Message-ID: <447FEC1B.80205@yahoo.com.au> Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:43:23 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051007 Debian/1.7.12-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Abu M. Muttalib" CC: Jesper Juhl , "Martin J. Bligh" , Paulo Marques , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Page Allocation Failure, Why?? Bug in kernel?? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com