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Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 07:44:33 +0200 From: Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh@...all.nl> To: Robert Hancock <hancockr@...w.ca> CC: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: What to do with `kswapd0: page allocation failure. ` ? Robert Hancock wrote: >> I can reproduce this by wget'ing a 5.xGB file from my MythTV box. >> The receiving end is a Fedora 9, AMD x86_64 box with an Abit m56s-s3 >> board using nVidia Corporation MCP65 Ethernet (rev a3). >> It uses the forcedeth: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. >> Version 0.61. >> >> Should I forward this info to someone so this could be fixed? >> Someone doing the kernel memory management? >> Or forcedeth? >> Or? >> >> Please let me know. > > The fact you're using jumbo frames makes this more noticeable, since it > needs a 9000 byte chunk of memory to receive the packet, which means > that it needs to allocate a 16KB chunk of memory. This means that even > if memory is not full, it can be that no sufficiently large chunk of > memory is available. > > Quite likely something could be done to improve this, yes.. What can/should I do? I am not a programmer but can build kernels, apply patches, do testing, etc. Kind regards, Udo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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