Messages in this thread | | | From | Al Boldi <> | Subject | Re: workaround large MTU and N-order allocation failures | Date | Mon, 19 Sep 2005 16:38:15 +0300 |
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Nick Piggin wrote: > On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 17:35 +0300, Dan Aloni wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Is there currently a workaround available for handling large MTU > > (larger than 1 page, even 2-order) in the Linux network stack? > > > > The problem with large MTU is external memory fragmentation in > > the buddy system following high workload, causing alloc_skb() to > > fail. > > > > I'm interested in patches for both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. > > Yes there is currently a workaround. That is to keep increasing > /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes until your allocation failures stop.
How do you do it in 2.4?
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