Re: swapper: page allocation failure. order:1, mode:0x20

From: Robert Hancock
Date: Mon Feb 28 2005 - 20:31:06 EST


Nigel Cunningham wrote:
Hi.

On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 12:10, Robert Hancock wrote:

Bernd Schubert wrote:
Essentially the tg3 Ethernet driver is trying to allocate memory to store a received packet, and is unable to do so. Since this is done inside interrupt context, this allocation has to be serviced from physical memory. Order 1 means it only wanted one page of memory, and


Minor point, I know, but it's 2 pages of memory. If it couldn't get an
order zero page, that would be even greater hernia material!

Indeed.. off-by-one error :-)
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