From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Tomas Winkler <tomasw@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Zdenek Kabelac <zdenek.kabelac@gmail.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
yi.zhu@intel.com, reinette.chatre@intel.com,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problem: Out of memory after 2days with 2GB RAM
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:05:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1213290335.3730.4.camel@johannes.berg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1ba2fa240806120935r54a080eci7fa6fafc718eed17@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20080612_183546_862400_74C1FB2A)
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> > Probably. it would be safe to use vmalloc for allocating txb anyway.
> > I'll give it a try.
>
> So vmalloc didn't break anything on the 32bit machine I'm just about
> to install 64 one so it will take hour or two.. I will issue some
> official patch after that.
Well, I disagree, and I'll push my patch as soon as somebody confirms
that it doesn't break anything.
> > There was already discussion on LKML about memory allocation problems
> > on X86_64, which might explain this regression. This didn't happen
> > before.
>
> This is the thread title if you are interested.
> 'x86/kernel/pci_dma.c: gfp |= __GFP_NORETRY'
Like I said, it doesn't matter, there's no need to _waste_
18*256*sizeof(void *) bytes memory.
johannes
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-12 17:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-12 10:07 Zdenek Kabelac
2008-06-12 13:38 ` Rik van Riel
2008-06-12 13:54 ` Johannes Berg
2008-06-12 14:12 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2008-06-12 14:19 ` Johannes Berg
2008-06-12 16:38 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-06-12 15:43 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-06-12 16:35 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-06-12 17:05 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2008-06-12 17:39 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-06-12 17:46 ` Johannes Berg
2008-06-12 18:03 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-06-12 18:15 ` Johannes Berg
2008-06-12 20:11 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2008-06-12 22:17 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-06-13 0:43 ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-12 18:41 ` John W. Linville
2008-06-12 17:03 ` Johannes Berg
2008-06-12 17:35 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-06-12 17:39 ` Johannes Berg
2008-06-12 17:50 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-06-12 17:10 ` Rik van Riel
2008-06-12 21:30 ` Jiri Slaby
2008-06-12 22:26 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-06-13 14:08 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-06-13 14:15 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2008-06-30 11:30 ` Zdenek Kabelac
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