On Tue, 2013-02-19 at 08:18 -0800, Marc MERLIN wrote: > > Forgive the newbie question: would the inability to get pages cause > interrupts to be disabled or at least something that would stop the mouse > cursor and the keyboard from working? > Maybe these things also need order-1 pages to work ;) Any kmem_cache using order-1 or order-2 pages can not allocate new slabs For example, TCP sockets can not be allocated anymore, and fork() might not work anymore (kernel stacks need order-1 pages) I dont remember your case, but do you use CONFIG_COMPACTION=y ? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
