On Thursday January 27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > I just added an NFS mount to a ppc64 box that had been up for a while. > This required inserting the nfsd module. Unfortunately it failed: > > modprobe: page allocation failure. order:5, mode:0xd0 > Trace: > [c0000000000ba0f8] alloc_pages_current+0xc0/0xe4 > [c0000000000941fc] __get_free_pages+0x54/0x1e0 > [d00000000046f7d8] nfsd_cache_init+0x54/0x1a4 [nfsd] > [d0000000004782cc] init_nfsd+0x30/0x2564 [nfsd] > [c000000000084bec] sys_init_module+0x23c/0x5ac > [c00000000001045c] ret_from_syscall_1+0x0/0xa4 > nfsd: cannot allocate 98304 bytes for reply cache > > An order 5 allocation. Replace it with a vmalloc.
Given that the purpose of this order-5 allocation is to provide storage for 1024 "struct svc_cacherep" structs, it would seem that a better approach would be to just do 1024 kmallocs. I'll try to knock a patch together in next week sometime. Thanks, NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
