Re: Vanilla-Kernel 3 - page allocation failure

[Philipp Herz - Profihost AG]

Am 24.10.2011 10:01, schrieb Eric Dumazet:
> Le lundi 24 octobre 2011 Ã 09:21 +0200, Philipp Herz - Profihost AG a
> Ãcrit :
>
> > does that mean that there was no firmware limitation with kernel 2.6.32
> > or that the tg3 module has any "disable warnings" flag matching
> > __GFP_NOWARN?
>
> There is no __GFP_NOWARN trick on tg3.
>
> We tend to prefer to be notified of a memory problem, instead of
> hide ...
yes,
that's exactly what would like to understand in comparison to the 
behavior of kernel 2.6.32.

why does this notification show up now and never did before...

> By the way, apparently this driver drops the frame and doesnt increase
> tx_dropped device counter. A patch will follow.
fine

> Could you post your full dmesg ?
Currently i can not provide any further information, 'cause server has 
been restarted.

What exactly are you looking for?
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