Re: Vanilla-Kernel 3 - page allocation failure

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Mon Oct 24 2011 - 04:01:24 EST


Le lundi 24 octobre 2011 Ã 09:21 +0200, Philipp Herz - Profihost AG a
Ãcrit :

> does that mean that there was no firmware limitation with kernel 2.6.32
> or that the tg3 module has any "disable warnings" flag matching
> __GFP_NOWARN?
>

There is no __GFP_NOWARN trick on tg3.

We tend to prefer to be notified of a memory problem, instead of
hide ...

By the way, apparently this driver drops the frame and doesnt increase
tx_dropped device counter. A patch will follow.

Could you post your full dmesg ?


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