Re: 2.6.34.1 page allocation failure

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Sun Aug 22 2010 - 18:41:22 EST


On Sun, 22 Aug 2010, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> In Stan's case, it's a order-1 GFP_ATOMIC allocation but there are
> only order-0 pages available. Mel, any recent page allocator fixes in
> 2.6.35 or 2.6.36-rc1 that Stan/Mikael should test?

This is the TCP slab? Best fix would be in the page allocator. However,
in this particular case the slub allocator would be able to fall back to
an order 0 allocation and still satisfy the request.


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