Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:44:41 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: GFP_ATOMIC page allocation failures. | From | David Miller <> |
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From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:56:05 +0900
> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > We get rather a lot of reports of page allocation warnings coming out of > > tg3. But this driver is know to handle them properly so let's suppress > > them. > > BTW: > other person's tg3 allocation failure bug report. > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9771
Yes, I know about it. It will occur for any device which must use linear RX buffers and supports >PAGE_SIZE MTUs.
But modern chips are going to support segmentation of receive packets into multiple individual pages and therefore not have this order>0 page allocation requirement.
That is my point.
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