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

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 11:37, James Lentini wrote:
> 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. 

I am also running in "loopback" where both server and client are on same
machine.

> What are the contents of /etc/cpuinfo and 
> /etc/meminfo on this system?

Those files don't exist on my machine.

-- Hal