netdev - Re: kmem_cache_alloc panic in 3.10+

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Date:	Thu, 30 Jan 2014 18:16:55 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	dormando <dormando@...ia.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>
Subject: Re: kmem_cache_alloc panic in 3.10+

On Wed, 2014-01-29 at 23:05 -0800, dormando wrote:

> We hit the routing code fairly hard. Any hints for what to look at or how
> to instrument it? Or if it's fixed already? It's a real pain to iterate
> since it takes ~30 days to crash, usually. Sometimes.

I really wonder... it looks like a possible in SLUB. (might be already
fixed)

Could you try using SLAB instead ?


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