From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965046AbVI0S7U (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Sep 2005 14:59:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965047AbVI0S7U (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Sep 2005 14:59:20 -0400 Received: from dvhart.com ([64.146.134.43]:12941 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965046AbVI0S7T (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Sep 2005 14:59:19 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 11:59:16 -0700 From: "Martin J. Bligh" Reply-To: "Martin J. Bligh" To: Andrew Morton , Reuben Farrelly Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org, "Seth, Rohit" Subject: Re: 2.6.14-rc2-mm1 (Oops, possibly Netfilter related?) Message-ID: <925820000.1127847556@flay> In-Reply-To: <20050927004410.29ab9c03.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20050921222839.76c53ba1.akpm@osdl.org><4338F136.1020404@reub.net> <20050927004410.29ab9c03.akpm@osdl.org> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.1.2 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > No, this is simply a warning - the kernel ran out of 1-order pages in the > page allocator. There have been several reports of this after > mm-try-to-allocate-higher-order-pages-in-rmqueue_bulk.patch was merged, > which was rather expected. > > I've dropped that patch. Joel Schopp is working on Mel Gorman's patches > which address fragmentation at this level. If that code gets there then we > can take another look at > mm-try-to-allocate-higher-order-pages-in-rmqueue_bulk.patch. Me no understand. We're going to deliberately cause fragmentation in order to defragment it again later ??? M.