[openib-general] failed to allocate buffer page

Libor Michalek libor at topspin.com
Tue Apr 12 13:03:05 PDT 2005


On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 11:47:30AM -0700, Grant Grundler wrote:
> Hi,
> Haven't checked yet waht the "side effect" of this error was,
> but here is the output so people are aware of it.
> 
> This is the first time I've seen this. I've been doing
> (unload, reload, test) loops alot last week. Just scripted
> the set of commands and got the error on the first try.
> 
> Not reproducible on this or other boxes.
>
>  [<a00000020025f930>] sdp_buff_pool_alloc+0xf0/0x3e0 [ib_sdp]
>                                 sp=e00000002920fe30 bsp=e000000029208f70

  This is the SDP buffer allocator, at init time it pre-allocates
some buffers that are used for transfers. The alloctor uses ATOMIC
since it can be called during run time. I'll add a function parameter
to determine how the allocator should be called.

-Libor




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