[DRBD-user] Page allocation failure

Gennadiy Nerubayev parakie at gmail.com
Thu Apr 16 21:35:10 CEST 2009

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I have a dual primary drbd setup with "sndbuf-size 0" set on both nodes,
however one node has two gigabytes of memory, and the other has eight.
Nearly all of the memory is used by the buffer cache due to the target
caching. If the node that has 2gb is the currently "active" (as in actual
traffic is only done to one of them), the attached kernel message is
triggered during heavy I/O operations from the initiator. I have not been
able to replicate this when the 8gb node is active - could we conclude that
2gb is too little in such a setup?

Thanks,

-Gennadiy
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drbd0_receiver: page allocation failure. order:4, mode:0x20
Pid: 12266, comm: drbd0_receiver Not tainted 2.6.29.1 #7
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8027a1ef>] __alloc_pages_internal+0x3a4/0x3bd
 [<ffffffff8029a181>] kmem_getpages+0x6b/0x139
 [<ffffffff8029a726>] fallback_alloc+0x13b/0x1b1
 [<ffffffff8029ab50>] __kmalloc+0xc8/0xf1
 [<ffffffff804a54a3>] pskb_expand_head+0x4f/0x14e
 [<ffffffff804a5633>] __pskb_pull_tail+0x57/0x291
 [<ffffffff804ae5e1>] dev_queue_xmit+0xac/0x447
 [<ffffffff804d010b>] ip_queue_xmit+0x2c5/0x31a
 [<ffffffff8020c9ee>] apic_timer_interrupt+0xe/0x20
 [<ffffffff804dfe87>] tcp_transmit_skb+0x5f2/0x62f
 [<ffffffff804e13eb>] tcp_write_xmit+0x820/0x8fa
 [<ffffffff804df576>] tcp_current_mss+0xa8/0xca
 [<ffffffff804e14e7>] __tcp_push_pending_frames+0x22/0x77
 [<ffffffff804def2c>] tcp_rcv_established+0x4e0/0x568
 [<ffffffff804e3db7>] tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x2c/0x1d3
 [<ffffffff8024b466>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e
 [<ffffffff804d4f5e>] tcp_prequeue_process+0x69/0x7c
 [<ffffffff804d7504>] tcp_recvmsg+0x3a2/0x78f
 [<ffffffff804a13b5>] sock_common_recvmsg+0x30/0x45
 [<ffffffff8049f6fb>] sock_recvmsg+0xf0/0x10f
 [<ffffffff8049f6fb>] sock_recvmsg+0xf0/0x10f
 [<ffffffffa02acf59>] __drbd_set_state+0xce/0xdc6 [drbd]
 [<ffffffff8024b466>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e
 [<ffffffffa0065eea>] aac_scsi_cmd+0xb1f/0x109e [aacraid]
 [<ffffffff8022ce6f>] target_load+0x24/0x4f
 [<ffffffff8022dab6>] enqueue_task+0x48/0x51
 [<ffffffff8022dad9>] activate_task+0x1a/0x20
 [<ffffffff80231a33>] try_to_wake_up+0x262/0x274
 [<ffffffffa029c4ab>] drbd_recv+0x71/0x110 [drbd]
 [<ffffffffa029c7e6>] drbd_recv_header+0x16/0xa2 [drbd]
 [<ffffffffa029cf0e>] drbdd+0x28/0x154 [drbd]
 [<ffffffffa029fc63>] drbdd_init+0xbe/0x104 [drbd]
 [<ffffffffa02b09b4>] drbd_thread_setup+0x115/0x193 [drbd]
 [<ffffffff8020ceba>] child_rip+0xa/0x20
 [<ffffffffa02b089f>] drbd_thread_setup+0x0/0x193 [drbd]
 [<ffffffff8020ceb0>] child_rip+0x0/0x20
Mem-Info:
Node 0 DMA per-cpu:
CPU    0: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
CPU    1: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
Node 0 DMA32 per-cpu:
CPU    0: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd: 185
CPU    1: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd: 141
Active_anon:9257 active_file:4093 inactive_anon:8664
 inactive_file:389059 unevictable:1348 dirty:20548 writeback:2039 unstable:0
 free:3560 slab:34427 mapped:2156 pagetables:1059 bounce:0
Node 0 DMA free:8004kB min:20kB low:24kB high:28kB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:4kB inactive_file:196kB unevictable:0kB present:7304kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
lowmem_reserve[]: 0 2003 2003 2003
Node 0 DMA32 free:6824kB min:5712kB low:7140kB high:8568kB active_anon:37028kB inactive_anon:34656kB active_file:16368kB inactive_file:1555644kB unevictable:5392kB present:2051244kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0
Node 0 DMA: 4*4kB 3*8kB 4*16kB 3*32kB 4*64kB 5*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 2*1024kB 2*2048kB 0*4096kB = 8008kB
Node 0 DMA32: 1062*4kB 230*8kB 6*16kB 1*32kB 2*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 6856kB
395857 total pagecache pages
1732 pages in swap cache
Swap cache stats: add 5558, delete 3826, find 39369/39711
Free swap  = 3999300kB
Total swap = 4008176kB
524000 pages RAM
42048 pages reserved
401850 pages shared
77174 pages non-shared


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