linux-kernel - Re: Page swap allocation failure 2.6.25

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Date:	Sun, 13 Jul 2008 13:02:22 +0200
From:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:	Alex Samad <alex@...ad.com.au>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Edward Hsu <edward_hsu@...ltek.com.tw>
Subject: Re: Page swap allocation failure 2.6.25

Alex Samad <alex@...ad.com.au> :
[...]
> For a while now I have been receiving page swap allocation failures
> 
> 
> Similar to http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/10/3 and

Order 0 failure. Your is an order 2 one.

> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/19/298

Order 3 failure which was fixed with the e1000e driver.

> and I have filed a bug with debian (Bug#486300)
> 
> 
> It seems like any time I put the system under load, transferring large
> files across the network  (1G nic, a r8186 and forcedeth and a
> broadcom).  I keep getting these errors

May I assume that you are working with a MTU greater than 1500 bytes on
each interface ? If so plese add netdev@...r.kernel.org to the Cc: and
remove linux-kernel@ from the Cc:.

[...]
> Jul 13 13:28:30 nas kernel: [  648.120756]  [<ffffffff881b525f>]
> :r8168:rtl8168_rx_fill+0x64/0x106

It looks more like Realtek's out-of-tree driver than like the in-kernel
one. Is it a customised kernel ?

[...]
> Help

Don't panic.

-- 
Ueimor
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