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    SubjectRe: swapper: page allocation failure. order:1, mode:0x20
    Nigel Cunningham wrote:
    > Hi.
    >
    > On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 12:10, Robert Hancock wrote:
    >
    >>Bernd Schubert wrote:
    >>Essentially the tg3 Ethernet driver is trying to allocate memory to
    >>store a received packet, and is unable to do so. Since this is done
    >>inside interrupt context, this allocation has to be serviced from
    >>physical memory. Order 1 means it only wanted one page of memory, and
    >
    >
    > Minor point, I know, but it's 2 pages of memory. If it couldn't get an
    > order zero page, that would be even greater hernia material!

    Indeed.. off-by-one error :-)
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