Messages in this thread | | | From | Frans Pop <> | Subject | Re: [Bug #14141] order 2 page allocation failures in iwlagn | Date | Fri, 2 Oct 2009 12:01:32 +0200 |
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On Friday 02 October 2009, Mel Gorman wrote: > On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 11:11:52AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > My own feeling is that Bartlomiej is correct and that something has > > changed since .29 and that on average we do have less higher order > > areas available after the system has been in use for some time, but I > > can't substantiate that. I do know that before .30 I had never seen > > the SKB allocation errors. > > > > Main problem is that it's hard to deliberately and reproducibly get > > the system in a state where the errors occur. > > Apparently, Karol Lewandowski (cc added) has a reliable > reproduction case for when the firmware loading problem occurs > (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/9/30/242). While it's not the same problem > exactly, it's probable they're related. I'm hoping the problem commit > can be identified by his bisection whenever he gets around to it.
That does indeed look like a third independent report for basically the same issue.
> [...], I accept that the problem is apparently occuring more now than it > did so something has changed that is not obvious to normal testing.
Cool, that's progress ;-)
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