Commit db38c179 authored Nov 03, 2006 by Larry Woodman Committed by David S. Miller Nov 05, 2006

[NET]: __alloc_pages() failures reported due to fragmentation



We have seen a couple of __alloc_pages() failures due to
fragmentation, there is plenty of free memory but no large order pages
available.  I think the problem is in sock_alloc_send_pskb(), the
gfp_mask includes __GFP_REPEAT but its never used/passed to the page
allocator.  Shouldnt the gfp_mask be passed to alloc_skb() ?

Signed-off-by: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent 0f37c605

net/core/sock.c

+1 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -1160,7 +1160,7 @@ static struct sk_buff sock_alloc_send_pskb(struct sock sk,
		goto failure;

		if (atomic_read(&sk->sk_wmem_alloc) < sk->sk_sndbuf) {
		skb = alloc_skb(header_len, sk->sk_allocation);
		skb = alloc_skb(header_len, gfp_mask);
		if (skb) {
		int npages;
		int i;

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