On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 07:22 -0700, Mel Gorman wrote: > [Bug #14141] order 2 page allocation failures in iwlagn > Commit 4752c93c30441f98f7ed723001b1a5e3e5619829 introduced GFP_ATOMIC > allocations within the wireless driver. This has caused large numbers > of failure reports to occur as reported by Frans Pop. Fixing this > requires changes to the driver if it wants to use GFP_ATOMIC which > is in the hands of Mohamed Abbas and Reinette Chatre. However, > it is very likely that it has being compounded by core mm changes > that this series is aimed at.
Driver has been changed to allocate paged skb for its receive buffers. This reduces amount of memory needed from order-2 to order-1. This work is significant and will thus be in 2.6.33. Reinette -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
