-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: David Miller We have seen a couple of __alloc_pages() failures due to fragmentation, there is plenty of free memory but no large order pages available. I think the problem is in sock_alloc_send_pskb(), the gfp_mask includes __GFP_REPEAT but its never used/passed to the page allocator. Shouldnt the gfp_mask be passed to alloc_skb() ? Signed-off-by: Larry Woodman Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Chris Wright --- --- net/core/sock.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- linux-2.6.18.2.orig/net/core/sock.c +++ linux-2.6.18.2/net/core/sock.c @@ -1164,7 +1164,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *sock_alloc_send_p goto failure; if (atomic_read(&sk->sk_wmem_alloc) < sk->sk_sndbuf) { - skb = alloc_skb(header_len, sk->sk_allocation); + skb = alloc_skb(header_len, gfp_mask); if (skb) { int npages; int i; -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/