Hi, many thanks for the fast reply! On 02.07.2013 15:16, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Control: fixed -1 3.4.1-1~experimental.1 > > On Tue, 2013-07-02 at 10:42 +0200, Udo Lembke wrote: >> Package: src:linux >> Version: 3.2.46-1 >> Severity: important >> Tags: upstream >> >> Dear Maintainer, >> we running three nodes as ceph-cluster (0.61.3-1~bpo70+1) and sometimes >> (app. once or twice a day) we got an kernel trace which seems to be related >> to the Intel 10GB-NIC (ixgbe module). >> The same happens before update (from: SMP Debian 3.2.41-2+deb7u2 x86_64 >> GNU/Linux) and also occur with an actual self-compiled ixgbe-module (3.15.1). >> The page allocation failure are not only swapper related. Also ceph-osd and >> kswapd0 trigger this problem. >> >> To avoid the kernel-trace I use the sysctl-value "vm.min_free_kbytes = >> 337920" but without luck. > You could try increasing it further... ok, doubled vm.min_free_kbytes to 675840 on one node but happens again. >> We had also the issue (perhaps not related to this bug) that the whole host >> freezed and the NIC flood the 10-GB-Port so that the complete switch (and >> the compled network) are freezed. > Please report only one issue in each bug report. Right, the information was only as backgroundinfo (if related to this bug).
> I believe the driver stopped making order-2 allocations in Linux 3.4, > with this change: commit f800326dca7bc158f4c886aa92f222de37993c80 > Author: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.du...@intel.com> Date: Sat Mar 3 > 02:35:52 2012 +0000 ixgbe: Replace standard receive path with a page > based receive This should fix the allocation failures you're seeing. > This might be backported to 3.2 if we have some other reason to update > the ixgbe driver. Otherwise it will not be. Ben. On one node I installed linux-image-3.9-1-amd64 from testing and still now no traces occur. Best regards Udo Lembke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
