Re: [Bug #14141] order 2 page allocation failures in iwlagn

From: Frans Pop
Date: Tue Oct 27 2009 - 08:56:01 EST


Sorry for the delay in replying.

On Saturday 17 October 2009, reinette chatre wrote:
> Prompted by this thread we are in process of moving allocation to paged
> skb. This will definitely reduce the allocation size (from order 2 to
> order 1) and hopefully help with this problem also. Could you please try
> with the attached two patches? They are based on 2.6.32-rc4.

Looks very good! With these patches I no longer get any SKB allocation
errors, even during the heaviest freezes while gitk is loading. I do still
get (long) music skips during the freezes, but that's not unexpected.
AFAICT the wireless connection is stable.

Tested on top of current mainline git: v2.6.32-rc5-81-g964fe08.

Please add, if you feel it's appropriate, my:
Reported-and-tested-by: Frans Pop <elendil@xxxxxxxxx>

Cheers,
FJP
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