On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 08:43:38AM -0700, reinette chatre wrote: > 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. >
What do you want to do for -stable in 2.6.31? -- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab -- 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
