From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261748AbULBU0v (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2004 15:26:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261751AbULBU0v (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2004 15:26:51 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:5782 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261748AbULBU0n (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2004 15:26:43 -0500 Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 12:25:46 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Lukas Hejtmanek Cc: zaphodb@zaphods.net, marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, piggin@cyberone.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6.9 Multiple Page Allocation Failures Message-Id: <20041202122546.59ff814f.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20041202195422.GA20771@mail.muni.cz> References: <20041109203348.GD8414@logos.cnet> <20041110212818.GC25410@mail.muni.cz> <20041110181148.GA12867@logos.cnet> <20041111214435.GB29112@mail.muni.cz> <4194A7F9.5080503@cyberone.com.au> <20041113144743.GL20754@zaphods.net> <20041116093311.GD11482@logos.cnet> <20041116170527.GA3525@mail.muni.cz> <20041121014350.GJ4999@zaphods.net> <20041121024226.GK4999@zaphods.net> <20041202195422.GA20771@mail.muni.cz> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Lukas Hejtmanek wrote: > > I found out that 2.6.6-bk4 kernel is OK. That kernel didn't have the TSO thing. Pretty much all of these reports have been against e1000_alloc_rx_buffers() since the TSO changes went in. I may have been asleep at the time. Could someone pleeeeze explain to me why the introduction of TSO has thrown this additional pressure onto the atomic memory allocations? Did you try disabling TSO, btw?