Re: [PATCH] mwifiex: add __GFP_REPEAT to skb allocation call
From: James Cameron
Date: Tue Mar 29 2016 - 01:38:17 EST
On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 12:47:20PM +0800, Wei-Ning Huang wrote:
> "single skb allocation failure" happens when system is under heavy
> memory pressure. Add __GFP_REPEAT to skb allocation call so kernel
> attempts to reclaim pages and retry the allocation.
Oh, that's interesting, we're back to this symptom again.
Nice to see this fix.
Heavy memory pressure on 3.5 caused dev_alloc_skb failure in this
driver. Tracked at OLPC as #12694.
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