Re: [PATCH 0/5] Candidate fix for increased number of GFP_ATOMICfailures V2

[reinette chatre]

On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 07:22 -0700, Mel Gorman wrote:
> [Bug #14141] order 2 page allocation failures in iwlagn
> 	Commit 4752c93c30441f98f7ed723001b1a5e3e5619829 introduced GFP_ATOMIC
> 	allocations within the wireless driver. This has caused large numbers
> 	of failure reports to occur as reported by Frans Pop. Fixing this
> 	requires changes to the driver if it wants to use GFP_ATOMIC which
> 	is in the hands of Mohamed Abbas and Reinette Chatre. However,
> 	it is very likely that it has being compounded by core mm changes
> 	that this series is aimed at.

Driver has been changed to allocate paged skb for its receive buffers.
This reduces amount of memory needed from order-2 to order-1. This work
is significant and will thus be in 2.6.33. 

Reinette


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