Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 02 Nov 2004 12:18:06 +0400 | | From | Brad Campbell <> | | Subject | Re: 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).
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