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SubjectRe: 2.6.10-rc1-bk page allocation failure. order:2, mode:0x20
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.

Thanks
Nick
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