Re: Kernel 2.6.9 Multiple Page Allocation Failures

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Dec 03 2004 - 05:38:31 EST


On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 02:56:10PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> hm, OK, interesting.
>
> It's quite possible that XFS is performing rather too many GFP_ATOMIC
> allocations and is depleting the page reserves. Although increasing
> /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes should help there.

There's only a single place in XFS (and a second one for debug builds) doing
GFP_ATOMIC allocations.

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