Bug#714729: linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64: Kernel trace "swapper: page allocation failure" in combination with Intel ixgbe
Hi,
many thanks for the fast reply!
On 02.07.2013 15:16, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Control: fixed -1 3.4.1-1~experimental.1
>
> On Tue, 2013-07-02 at 10:42 +0200, Udo Lembke wrote:
>> Package: src:linux
>> Version: 3.2.46-1
>> Severity: important
>> Tags: upstream
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>> we running three nodes as ceph-cluster (0.61.3-1~bpo70+1) and sometimes (app. once or twice a day) we got an kernel trace which seems to be related
>> to the Intel 10GB-NIC (ixgbe module).
>> The same happens before update (from: SMP Debian 3.2.41-2+deb7u2 x86_64 GNU/Linux) and also occur with an actual self-compiled ixgbe-module (3.15.1).
>> The page allocation failure are not only swapper related. Also ceph-osd and kswapd0 trigger this problem.
>>
>> To avoid the kernel-trace I use the sysctl-value "vm.min_free_kbytes = 337920" but without luck.
> You could try increasing it further...
ok, doubled vm.min_free_kbytes to 675840 on one node but happens again.
>> We had also the issue (perhaps not related to this bug) that the whole host freezed and the NIC flood the 10-GB-Port so that the complete switch (and
>> the compled network) are freezed.
> Please report only one issue in each bug report.
Right, the information was only as backgroundinfo (if related to this bug).
> I believe the driver stopped making order-2 allocations in Linux 3.4,
> with this change: commit f800326dca7bc158f4c886aa92f222de37993c80
> Author: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Date: Sat Mar 3
> 02:35:52 2012 +0000 ixgbe: Replace standard receive path with a page
> based receive This should fix the allocation failures you're seeing.
> This might be backported to 3.2 if we have some other reason to update
> the ixgbe driver. Otherwise it will not be. Ben.
On one node I installed linux-image-3.9-1-amd64 from testing and still
now no traces occur.
Best regards
Udo Lembke
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