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Message-Id: <1252617290.30150.321.camel@rc-desk>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:14:50 -0700
From: reinette chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
Cc: Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>,
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
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<ipw3945-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
"cl@...ux-foundation.org" <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
"Krauss, Assaf" <assaf.krauss@...el.com>,
Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
"Abbas, Mohamed" <mohamed.abbas@...el.com>
Subject: Re: iwlagn: order 2 page allocation failures
On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 02:02 -0700, Mel Gorman wrote:
>
> As a total aside, there is still the problem that the driver is depending on
> order-2 allocations. On systems without swap, the allocation problem could be
> more severe as there are fewer pages the system can use to regain contiguity.
I looked more at the implementation and hardware interface but I do not
see a way around this. We have to provide 8k buffer to device, and we
have to make sure it is aligned.
Do you have any suggestions?
Reinette
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