linux-kernel - Re: [Bug #13319] Page allocation failures with b43 and p54usb

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Message-ID: <4A2D1017.6010308@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:20:23 -0400
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
CC:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kernel Testers List <kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [Bug #13319] Page allocation failures with b43 and p54usb

Mel Gorman wrote:

> We've encountered this before and the conclusion was that the current
> adjustments for watermark calculations of high-order allocations is right,
> or at least there is no better alternative. In other words, the page
> allocator in this instance is behaving as expected. Do we want to
> revisit that discussion as to whether the watermark calculations for
> high-order allocation should change? I think we'll reach the same
> conclusion or at least decide that allowing the order-1 atomic
> allocation to succeed here would just postpone the problem.

It would not just postpone the problem, it would also
bring the system closer to a state where kswapd does
something about the order-1 free areas.

This might postpone the problem indefinately.

Currently the system fails early, without kswapd
kicking in and freeing new order-1 areas.

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