linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.1[78] page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20

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Message-Id: <20060922.222507.74751476.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 22 Sep 2006 22:25:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	akpm@...l.org
Cc:	auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com, Holger.Kiehl@....de,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-net@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, john.ronciak@...el.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.1[78] page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 21:50:00 -0700

> On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:10:36 -0700
> Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com> wrote:
> 
> > e1000: account for NET_IP_ALIGN when calculating bufsiz
> > 
> > Account for NET_IP_ALIGN when requesting buffer sizes from netdev_alloc_skb to 
> > reduce slab allocation by half.
> 
> Could we please do whatever is needed to get this blessed and merged?  This
> is such a common problem on such a common driver that I would suggest that
> we want this in 2.6.18.x as well.  At least, I'd expect distributors to
> ship this fix (they're nuts if they don't) and so it makes sense to deliver
> it from kernel.org.

The NET_IP_ALIGN existed not just for fun :)  There are ramifications
for removing it.

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