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Message-Id: <20080402.114441.78726196.davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:44:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com
Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, csnook@...hat.com,
davej@...emonkey.org.uk, nickpiggin@...oo.com.au,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
mchan@...adcom.com
Subject: Re: GFP_ATOMIC page allocation failures.
From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:56:05 +0900
>
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > We get rather a lot of reports of page allocation warnings coming out of
> > tg3. But this driver is know to handle them properly so let's suppress
> > them.
>
> BTW:
> other person's tg3 allocation failure bug report.
>
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9771
Yes, I know about it. It will occur for any device
which must use linear RX buffers and supports
>PAGE_SIZE MTUs.
But modern chips are going to support segmentation of
receive packets into multiple individual pages and
therefore not have this order>0 page allocation
requirement.
That is my point.
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