From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756209AbYGJIrZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:47:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751374AbYGJIrR (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:47:17 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:50332 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751340AbYGJIrQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:47:16 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:41:43 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Tilman Schmidt Cc: LKML Subject: Re: [2.6.25.8] "kswapd0: page allocation failure. order:3" in tcp_collapse Message-Id: <20080710014143.e5d8c642.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <486AB006.7080808@imap.cc> References: <486AB006.7080808@imap.cc> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:30:30 +0200 Tilman Schmidt wrote: > My Intel Pentium D940 system, Intel DQ965GF mainboard, 2 GB RAM, running an > x86_32 build of kernel release 2.6.25.8 with openSUSE 10.3 userland, produced > the message in the subject accompanied by a stack backtrace, seven times in a > row within a few milliseconds, during the nightly backup of a Windows system > through Bacula over the LAN. The backup did not report an error, though, and > everything else seems to be running normally, too. > > The kernel is built with CONFIG_SLUB=y. > > ... > > Should I worry? File a bug? Post more details? e1000 driver has a lovely habit of allocating 32k of GFP_ATOMIC memory for packets which are a quarter that size. AFAIK it is unfixable. It is a well-known and oft-reported problem. The system should recover OK. > Just ignore it? Learn to enjoy it ;)