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    SubjectRe: GFP_ATOMIC page allocation failures.
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    On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 11:44 -0700, David Miller wrote:
    > From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
    > Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:56:05 +0900
    >
    > > 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.

    tg3 hardware has a jumbo rx ring that can accommodate non-linear SKBs.
    Matt is working on some patches to add this feature.



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