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Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:14:50 -0700 From: reinette chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com> To: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie> Cc: Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>, "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>, "ipw3945-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net" <ipw3945-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, "cl@...ux-foundation.org" <cl@...ux-foundation.org>, "Krauss, Assaf" <assaf.krauss@...el.com>, Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>, "Abbas, Mohamed" <mohamed.abbas@...el.com> Subject: Re: iwlagn: order 2 page allocation failures On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 02:02 -0700, Mel Gorman wrote: > > As a total aside, there is still the problem that the driver is depending on > order-2 allocations. On systems without swap, the allocation problem could be > more severe as there are fewer pages the system can use to regain contiguity. I looked more at the implementation and hardware interface but I do not see a way around this. We have to provide 8k buffer to device, and we have to make sure it is aligned. Do you have any suggestions? Reinette -- 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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