"Michael S. Tsirkin" <m...@redhat.com> writes: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 09:46:47PM +0100, Romain Francoise wrote: >> Creating a vhost-net device allocates an object large enough (34320 bytes >> on x86-64) to trigger an order-4 allocation, which may fail if memory if >> fragmented: >> >> libvirtd: page allocation failure: order:4, mode:0x2000d0 >> ... >> SLAB: Unable to allocate memory on node 0 (gfp=0xd0) >> cache: size-65536, object size: 65536, order: 4 >> node 0: slabs: 8/8, objs: 8/8, free: 0 >> >> In that situation, rather than forcing the caller to use regular >> virtio-net, try to allocate the descriptor with vmalloc(). >> >> Signed-off-by: Romain Francoise <rom...@orebokech.com>
> Thanks for the patch. > Hmm, I haven't seen this. > Maybe we should try and reduce our memory usage, > I will look into this. Did you get a chance to investigate this? I'm still getting the same allocation failures with v3.10-rc7 after reverting my local patch. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
