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Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:57:46 +0100 From: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie> To: Tobias Oetiker <tobi@...iker.ch> Cc: Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>, David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>, KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>, Karol Lewandowski <karol.k.lewandowski@...il.com>, Mohamed Abbas <mohamed.abbas@...el.com>, "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org, jens.axboe@...cle.com Subject: Re: [Bug #14141] order 2 page allocation failures (generic) On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:17:06PM +0200, Tobias Oetiker wrote: > Hi Mel, > > Today Tobias Oetiker wrote: > > > Hi Mel, > > > > Today Mel Gorman wrote: > > > > > > > > > > if you can send me a consolidated patch which does apply to > > > > 2.6.31.4 I will be glad to try ... > > > > > > > > > > Sure > > > > > > ==== CUT HERE ==== > > > > > > From 6c0215af3b7c39ef7b8083ea38ca3ad93cd3f51f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > > > From: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie> > > > Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:40:43 +0100 > > > Subject: [PATCH] Kick off kswapd after direct reclaim and revert congestion changes > > > > > > The following patch is http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/16/89 on top of > > > 2.6.31.4 as well as patches 373c0a7e and 8aa7e847 reverted. > > > > it seems to help ... the server has been running for 3 hours now > > without incident, but then again it is not as active as during the > > day, ... will report tomorrow. > > while I was writing, the system found that the patch does not realy > help: > > Oct 19 22:09:52 johan kernel: [11157.121506] smtpd: page allocation failure. order:5, mode:0x4020 [kern.warning] > Oct 19 22:09:52 johan kernel: [11157.121514] Pid: 19324, comm: smtpd Tainted: G D 2.6.31.4-oep #1 [kern.warning] > Oct 19 22:09:52 johan kernel: [11157.121518] Call Trace: [kern.warning] > Oct 19 22:09:52 johan kernel: [11157.121521] <IRQ> [<ffffffff810cb599>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x549/0x650 [kern.warning] > Oct 19 22:09:52 johan kernel: [11157.121563] [<ffffffffa02bde3b>] ? __nf_ct_refresh_acct+0xab/0x110 [nf_conntrack] [kern.warning] > Oct 19 22:09:52 johan kernel: [11157.121572] [<ffffffffa02a8337>] ? ipt_do_table+0x2f7/0x610 [ip_tables] [kern.warning] > Oct 19 22:09:52 johan kernel: [11157.121580] [<ffffffff810fac18>] kmalloc_large_node+0x68/0xc0 [kern.warning] > Oct 19 22:09:52 johan kernel: [11157.121585] [<ffffffff810fe90a>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x11a/0x180 [kern.warning] > Oct 19 22:09:52 johan kernel: [11157.121592] [<ffffffff813ebd42>] ? skb_copy+0x32/0xa0 [kern.warning] > Oct 19 22:09:52 johan kernel: [11157.121596] [<ffffffff813e9606>] __alloc_skb+0x76/0x180 [kern.warning] > Oct 19 22:09:52 johan kernel: [11157.121600] [<ffffffff813ebd42>] skb_copy+0x32/0xa0 [kern.warning] > Oct 19 22:09:52 johan kernel: [11157.121615] [<ffffffffa07dd33c>] vboxNetFltLinuxPacketHandler+0x5c/0xd0 [vboxnetflt] [kern.warning] > Oct 19 22:09:52 johan kernel: [11157.121620] [<ffffffff813f2512>] dev_hard_start_xmit+0x142/0x320 [kern.warning] Are the number of failures at least reduced or are they occuring at the same rate? Also, what was the last kernel that worked for you with this configuration? Thanks > Oct 19 22:09:52 johan kernel: [11157.121632] [<ffffffff8140a2c1>] __qdisc_run+0x1a1/0x230 [kern.warning] > Oct 19 22:09:52 johan kernel: [11157.121637] [<ffffffff813f41e0>] dev_queue_xmit+0x2b0/0x3a0 [kern.warning] > Oct 19 22:09:52 johan kernel: [11157.121642] [<ffffffff8142349b>] ip_finish_output+0x11b/0x2f0 [kern.warning] > Oct 19 22:09:52 johan kernel: [11157.121646] [<ffffffff814236f9>] ip_output+0x89/0xd0 [kern.warning] > Oct 19 22:09:52 johan kernel: [11157.121650] [<ffffffff81422710>] ip_local_out+0x20/0x30 [kern.warning] > Oct 19 22:09:52 johan kernel: [11157.121654] [<ffffffff81422ffb>] ip_queue_xmit+0x22b/0x3f0 [kern.warning] > -- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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