linux-kernel - Re: Vanilla-Kernel 3 - page allocation failure

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Date:	Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:01:18 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	p.herz@...fihost.ag
Cc:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, s.priebe@...fihost.ag,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Vanilla-Kernel 3 - page allocation failure

Le lundi 24 octobre 2011 à 09:21 +0200, Philipp Herz - Profihost AG a
écrit :

> does that mean that there was no firmware limitation with kernel 2.6.32 
> or that the tg3 module has any "disable warnings" flag matching 
> __GFP_NOWARN?
> 

There is no __GFP_NOWARN trick on tg3.

We tend to prefer to be notified of a memory problem, instead of
hide ...

By the way, apparently this driver drops the frame and doesnt increase
tx_dropped device counter. A patch will follow.

Could you post your full dmesg ?


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