netdev - Re: [PATCH] virtio: use __GFP_NOWARN for try_fill_recv in virtnet

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Date:	Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:39:36 +0100
From:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio: use __GFP_NOWARN for try_fill_recv in
 virtnet_poll

On Tue 15-02-11 10:35:27, Michal Hocko wrote:
[...]
> [22798.508903] The following is only an harmless informational message.
> [22798.508909] Unless you get a _continuous_flood_ of these messages it means
> [22798.508911] everything is working fine. Allocations from irqs cannot be
> [22798.508913] perfectly reliable and the kernel is designed to handle that.

I have just realized that the above text is SLES specific so only the
line below with stack trace and memory info is printed. Sorry for confusion

> [22798.508917] loop3: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20, alloc_flags:0x30 pflags:0x80208040

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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