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Re: r8169: page allocation failure

To: Jan Killius <jkillius@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: r8169: page allocation failure
From: Francois Romieu <romieu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 21:08:59 +0200
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Jan Killius <jkillius@xxxxxxxx> :
[...]
> Here is the error:
> swapper: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20
> [<c013131e>]
> [<c0131458>]
> [<c0134337>]

It would be useful to map some of these adresses with the relevant
functions in your System.map.

[...]
> This problem happens while a ftp transfer. The kernel version is
> 2.6.9-rc4 but I'm using the r8169 driver and the netdev snapshot
> from 2.6.9-rc4-mm1.
> 
> ethtool -k:
> Offload parameters for eth2:
> rx-checksumming: on
> tx-checksumming: on
> scatter-gather: on
> tcp segmentation offload: on

The r8169 driver is not expected to allocate > 0 order pages until
the day it handles jumbo frames. Scary messages apart, how does the
system behave ?

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Ueimor

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