linux-kernel - Re: What to do with `kswapd0: page allocation failure. ` ?

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Message-ID: <488AFD90.9040204@xs4all.nl>
Date:	Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:33:52 +0200
From:	Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh@...all.nl>
To:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
CC:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: What to do with `kswapd0: page allocation failure. ` ?

KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
>>> no bug.
>>> this stack trace speak to
>>>
>>> 1. memory pressure increased
>>> 2. kswapd ran
>>> 3. network packet received
>>> 4. interrupt for network happend
>>> 5. but can't allocate memory for network buffer(skb).
>>> 6. Then, packet dropped
>>> 7. Then, warning happend.
>>>
>>> your network peer may resend the same packet after few times.
>>> no problem.
>> Thanks.
>> This was on a 4GB AMD X86_64 machine running Fedora 9.
>> The memory was not loaded that much. (~2 GB)
>> Or was the (largish) file being cached, filling up RAM?
> 
> maybe..

I can reproduce this by wget'ing a 5.xGB file from my MythTV box.
The receiving end is a Fedora 9, AMD x86_64 box with an Abit m56s-s3
board using nVidia Corporation MCP65 Ethernet (rev a3).
It uses the forcedeth: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver.
Version 0.61.

Should I forward this info to someone so this could be fixed?
Someone doing the kernel memory management?
Or forcedeth?
Or?

Please let me know.

Thanks,
Udo

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