Re: 2.6.4 and 2.6.7 page allocation failure / e1000 related ?

[Nick Piggin]

Christopher S. Aker wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've had this appear in dmesg a few times on a number of different systems, all
> identical hardware: SuperMicro 6013P-i dual Xeon, with 4GB of RAM, built-in e1000
> NICs connected via 100Mbit switch.
>
> It doesn't appear to cause any ill effects.  I haven't provided all the variations
> of the messages, but the consistent thing between them are the e1000_* calls.
> This isn't an OOM situation, the machines are only a handful of MB into swap (if
> that).

It shouldn't cause any problems, although an order 0 failure
shouldn't be happening often.

It is possible we want to increase /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes
a bit, or increase the amount of extra memory a __GFP_HIGH
allocation can get access to.

You could try the increasing former and see if that helps.
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