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DateTue, 02 Nov 2004 12:18:06 +0400
FromBrad Campbell <>
SubjectRe: 2.6.10-rc1-bk page allocation failure. order:2, mode:0x20
Nick Piggin wrote:
> 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.

Always willing to test specific patches. Can I just grab the broken out patches, or pull some
specific csets from a bk tree? I'm not particularly keen on running an -mm kernel on this box if I
can avoid it (It's a server in 24hr use with 2.5TB of data where the backup media is 7,000km away).

Regards,
Brad
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