Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 02 Nov 2004 19:03:04 +1100 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.10-rc1-bk page allocation failure. order:2, mode:0x20 |
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Brad Campbell wrote: > G'day all, > > I'm still getting quite a lot of these come up in the logs when the > system is under mild load. > I suspect it might have something to do with running an MTU of 9000 on > the main ethernet port which is directly feeding a workstation with an > NFS root (and thus gets quite a high load at times) > > It's not so much an issue but it does cause the workstation to stall for > up to a second while it waits for data every time it occurs. > > The loaded ethernet port is this one on an PCI card > > 0000:00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Yukon > Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter (rev 12) > > This started rearing its ugly head when I moved from 2.6.5 to 2.6.9-preX > and persists with BK as of about 2 days ago. >
There are patches in the newest -mm kernels that should help the problem. If you're willing to test them, the feedback would be welcome.
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