Re: Page alloc failures under network/disk IO load

["Dan Noé" <dpn@isomerica.net>]

Francois Romieu wrote:
> Dan Noé <dpn@isomerica.net> :
> [...]
>> I'm a bit confused because on another system (2.6.26.3) I never see
>> messages like this despite having the same amount of physical RAM in
>> each.  The 2.6.26.3 system is also under more active use, and has more
>> userspace memory usage.  On that system:
> 
> Does this system use the same network card ?

Nope, good point :)  The system experiencing the allocation failures is
using an rtl8169 gigabit NIC (at 1gbps), the 2.6.26.3 system is on a
100M connection with a gigabit Broadcom BCM5721 / tg3.

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01)

04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5721
Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 11)

I can see how this could account for different behavior, although
presumably both drivers are calling __netdev_alloc_skb.

Cheers,
Dan

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