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Message-Id: <6.2.5.6.2.20090616132304.05a7f490@binnacle.cx>
Date:	Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:24:27 -0400
From:	starlight@...nacle.cx
To:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk, Lee.Schermerhorn@...com,
	kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com, ebmunson@...ibm.com,
	agl@...ibm.com, apw@...onical.com, wli@...ementarian.org
Subject: Re: QUESTION: can netdev_alloc_skb() errors be reduced
  by tuning?

>Tried increasing a few /proc/slabinfo tuneable parameters today
>and this appears to have fixed the issue so far today.

Spoke too soon.  A burst of allocation fails appeared
a some incoming data was lost.  'e1000e' system had
no problem.

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