Re: 2.6.34.1 page allocation failure

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Mon Aug 23 2010 - 05:37:13 EST


On 8/23/10 1:40 AM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
On Sun, 22 Aug 2010, Pekka Enberg wrote:

In Stan's case, it's a order-1 GFP_ATOMIC allocation but there are
only order-0 pages available. Mel, any recent page allocator fixes in
2.6.35 or 2.6.36-rc1 that Stan/Mikael should test?
This is the TCP slab? Best fix would be in the page allocator. However,
in this particular case the slub allocator would be able to fall back to
an order 0 allocation and still satisfy the request.

Looking at the stack trace of the oops, I think Stan has CONFIG_SLAB which doesn't have order-0 fallback.

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