From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: zaitcev@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: X or AF_UNIX and order 3 allocation
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:52:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080416085213.1e55bd1e@extreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080415.215144.87148045.davem@davemloft.net>
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:51:44 -0700 (PDT)
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:10:55 -0700
>
> > Hi, Guys:
> >
> > Not sure if the problem is caused by X or kernel, but this is what
>
> It seems to be the b44 driver doing a large huge order allocation.
>
> That driver only asks for (1536 + 30 + 64) bytes, so I suppose part of
> the problem is that SLAB is using an order 3 allocation to satisfy
> that.
>
The chip needs memory below 1G for DMA, perhaps low memory is getting
exhausted.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-16 15:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-16 4:10 X or AF_UNIX and order 3 allocation Pete Zaitcev
2008-04-16 4:51 ` David Miller
2008-04-16 15:52 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2008-04-16 16:59 ` Pete Zaitcev
2008-04-27 16:48 ` [ipw2100, b44] " Pekka Pietikainen
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