[openib-general] Re: Page allocation failures & kdapltest oops

[James Lentini]

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Hal Rosenstock wrote:

halr> That seems better but I still see the following:

<snip>

The failure is as expected, but at least it was graceful. 

halr> Also, I don't understand why:
halr> kdapltest -T T -s <IP> -D mthca0a -d -t 2 -w 8 -i 20 client SR server SR
halr> would work and
halr> kdapltest -T T -s <IP> -D mthca0a -d -i 10000 -w 8 client SR server SR
halr> would fail. It seems the former is more strenuous (everything same but 2
halr> threads and less iterations).

My hypothesis is that each iteration allocates memory that isn't 
free'd until the test is over. 

I haven't been able to reproduce this yet, even when I turn on 
DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. What are the contents of /etc/cpuinfo and 
/etc/meminfo on this system?

james