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Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6.9 Multiple Page Allocation Failures
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Andrew Morton wrote:
> Lukas Hejtmanek <xhejtman@mail.muni.cz> wrote:
> 
>>I found out that 2.6.6-bk4 kernel is OK. 
> 
> 
> That kernel didn't have the TSO thing.  Pretty much all of these reports
> have been against e1000_alloc_rx_buffers() since the TSO changes went in.

This possibly related patch went into 2.6 and it bugged me
as Ganesh didn't address the reservations mentioned in the thread:
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/netdev/archive/2004-07/msg00704.html

Pa'draig.