Re: iwlagn: order 2 page allocation failures

From: John W. Linville
Date: Tue Sep 08 2009 - 10:45:59 EST


On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 02:11:35PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Mel Gorman<mel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > My feeling is also that a number of these page allocation failures have
> > been related to wireless drivers. Is that accurate? If so, have there
> > been changes made to the wireless stack in this cycle that would have
> > increased the order of pages allocated?
>
> That's my general feeling as well. We have linux-wireless CC'd so
> maybe this rings a bell for them.

AFAIK, this is only the second separate report. The other related
to ipw2200, which actually shares no code with the iwlagn driver and
is not based on the mac80211 stack.

Hth!

John
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