From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 10:42:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 10:42:16 -0400 Received: from abasin.nj.nec.com ([138.15.150.16]:36362 "HELO abasin.nj.nec.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 10:42:03 -0400 From: Sven Heinicke MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15234.29508.488705.826498@abasin.nj.nec.com> Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 10:42:12 -0400 (EDT) To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: With Daniel Phillips Patch (was: aic7xxx with 2.4.9 on 7899P) In-Reply-To: <15233.37122.901333.300620@abasin.nj.nec.com> In-Reply-To: <20010820230909.A28422@oisec.net> <200108202145.f7KLjsY43284@aslan.scsiguy.com> <15233.37122.901333.300620@abasin.nj.nec.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Forgive the sin of replying to my own message but Daniel Phillips replied to a different message with a patch to somebody getting a similar error to mine. Here is the result: Aug 20 15:10:33 ps1 kernel: cation failed (gfp=0x30/1). Aug 20 15:10:33 ps1 kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x30/1). Aug 20 15:10:46 ps1 last message repeated 327 times Aug 20 15:10:47 ps1 kernel: cation failed (gfp=0x30/1). Aug 20 15:10:47 ps1 kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x30/1). Aug 20 15:10:56 ps1 last message repeated 294 times Sven Heinicke writes: > > It's always a blessing and a curse when people seem to be haveing > problems with the same drivers as you. I started looking into this > when I user complained about disk access time. I think this is > related to the running aic7xxx topics. > > From my tests, I got a Dell 4400 who's Adaptec 7899P, according to > bonnie++, was writing slower then some of my my IDE drives on a > different system. I tried Red Hat's 2.4.3-12smp kernel and got a > little improvement. I then built 2.4.9 and started running bonnie++ > again and my syslog gets filled up with such errors: > > Aug 20 14:23:33 ps1 kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order all > Aug 20 14:23:36 ps1 last message repeated 376 times > Aug 20 14:23:36 ps1 kernel: ed. > Aug 20 14:23:36 ps1 kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order all > Aug 20 14:23:44 ps1 last message repeated 376 times > Aug 20 14:23:44 ps1 kernel: ed. > Aug 20 14:23:44 ps1 kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order all > Aug 20 14:23:44 ps1 last message repeated 363 times > > With slow access time. Please request more info if you think it might > help. > > Sven > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/