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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Brad Allen <Ulmo-Usenet@Usenet.Q.Net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: allocation failures with CBQ bandwidth limiting & high net use (was Re: Filesystem kernel hangup, 2.6.3 (bad: scheduling while atomic!))
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 22:42:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040427224239.11a59b84.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040427.213919.884032925.ulmo-u@Q.Net>

Brad Allen <Ulmo-Usenet@Usenet.Q.Net> wrote:
>
>  My MTU for GbE (e1000) is 9000, and NFS block size 8192 bytes.
>  That GbE is a consumer grade Intel model.
> ....
>  swapper: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20

The kernel simply doesn't have a hope of being able to find eight
physically-contiguous free pages at interrupt time.

You'll get some benefit from increasing /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes

But it's beginning to look like we need separately-managed higher-order
page pools for this.  At least.


      reply	other threads:[~2004-04-28  5:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-22 15:49 Filesystem kernel hangup, 2.6.3 (bad: scheduling while atomic!) Mikael Wahlberg
2004-02-23 12:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-23 13:08   ` Mikael Wahlberg
2004-02-23 13:13     ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-03-04  9:35       ` Mikael Wahlberg
2004-02-23 13:46     ` Seth Mos
2004-02-23 13:50       ` Mikael Wahlberg
2004-02-23 13:46   ` Mikael Wahlberg
     [not found]   ` <1077543963.1246.20.camel@harrier.lucky.linux.kernel>
2004-04-28  4:39     ` allocation failures with CBQ bandwidth limiting & high net use (was Re: Filesystem kernel hangup, 2.6.3 (bad: scheduling while atomic!)) Brad Allen
2004-04-28  5:42       ` Andrew Morton [this message]

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