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Re: iwlagn: order 2 page allocation failures

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On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 02:02 -0700, Mel Gorman wrote:

> 
> As a total aside, there is still the problem that the driver is depending on
> order-2 allocations. On systems without swap, the allocation problem could be
> more severe as there are fewer pages the system can use to regain contiguity.

I looked more at the implementation and hardware interface but I do not
see a way around this. We have to provide 8k buffer to device, and we
have to make sure it is aligned. 

Do you have any suggestions?

Reinette

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