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SubjectRE: 2.6.9 - e1000 - page allocation failed
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# patch -p1 < ../e1000.patch
patching file net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
# lilo
Added 2.6.9-2 *
#

I am copying files on the NIC @ 24-28MB/s (normal) over NFS (16GB), no
problems yet.

I will let you know if I get any more page allocation failures.

Also, on the topic of page allocation failures, if I increase the MTU to
9000 I always get page allocation failures on the Optiplex GX1 box, on a
P4 box I do not get the page allocation failures (I wanted to see what
kind of speeds could be achieved using a 9000 byte MTU vs 1500).

So far, no problems, I will Re: if there if the errors re-occur.


-----Original Message-----
From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
[mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Morton
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 5:52 AM
To: Francois Romieu
Cc: xhejtman@mail.muni.cz; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.9 - e1000 - page allocation failed

Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com> wrote:
>
> Lukas Hejtmanek <xhejtman@mail.muni.cz> :
> [page allocation failure with e1000]
>
> If you are using TSO, try patch below by Herbert Xu (available
> from
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=109799935603132&w=3)
>
> --- 1.67/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c 2004-10-01 13:56:45 +10:00
> +++ edited/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c 2004-10-17 18:58:47 +10:00
> @@ -455,8 +455,12 @@
> {
> struct tcp_opt *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
> struct sk_buff *buff;
> - int nsize = skb->len - len;
> + int nsize;
> u16 flags;
> +
> + nsize = skb_headlen(skb) - len;
> + if (nsize < 0)
> + nsize = 0;
>
> if (skb_cloned(skb) &&
> skb_is_nonlinear(skb) &&

I'd be interested in knowing if this fixes it - I don't expect it will,
because that's a zero-order allocation failure. He's really out of
memory.

The e1000 driver has a default rx ring size of 256 which seems a bit
nutty:
a back-to-back GFP_ATOMIC allocation of 256 skbs could easily exhaust
the
page allocator pools.

Probably this machine needs to increase /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes.
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