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SubjectRe: swapper: page allocation failure. order:1, mode:0x20
Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 12:10, Robert Hancock wrote:
>
>>Bernd Schubert wrote:
>>Essentially the tg3 Ethernet driver is trying to allocate memory to
>>store a received packet, and is unable to do so. Since this is done
>>inside interrupt context, this allocation has to be serviced from
>>physical memory. Order 1 means it only wanted one page of memory, and
>
>
> Minor point, I know, but it's 2 pages of memory. If it couldn't get an
> order zero page, that would be even greater hernia material!

Indeed.. off-by-one error :-)
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