Subject: Re: 3.2.8/amd64 full interrupt hangs and deadlocks under big network copies (page allocation failure)

From: Marc MERLIN <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 11:36:32 -0700

On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 02:12:41PM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Marc MERLIN <[email-masked]>
> Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 10:20:51 -0700
> 
> > Any idea what's going on, what bucket of RAM is an issue for the driver
> > (total RAM is more than plenty), and where I should go from there?
> 
> The wireless layer is allocating high-order pages, so it's
> not the amount of ram, it's the fragmentation of it leading
> to a lack of those high-order pages.

I figured it was something of the sort, thanks for the professional
confirmation :)

What's my next step, file a bug with a specific team?

Thanks,
Marc
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