[ELDK] Jumbo Frames, sil24 SATA driver, and kswapd0 page allocation failures

[Jonathan Haws]

> > Everything seems to point to the fact that when write() is called, 
> > memory i s allocated from RAM to cache data before it is 
> physically written to disk.
> >   However, it appears (again, I am speculating here - if 
> someone can 
> > enligh ten me that would be great) that memory is not 
> getting released 
> > - simply be cause when the emac_poll_rx tries to allocate 
> memory for 
> > its next skb it fa ils and for all intents and purposes 
> crashes the kernel.
> > 
> > I am almost certain that the issue is not in my code, but in the 
> > kernel som ewhere.  But digging through libAta, I do not 
> find anything 
> > that would caus e this.  It appears that when memory is 
> allocated, it 
> > is released as soon a t it is finished using it.
> 
> Well, it would be definitely helpful if you first checked 
> your code and added proper error checking to all system calls 
> and library function calls, and bail out after an error occurs.

Okay, I have gone through my code, and added checks to every system
call.  If there is erroneous behavior, then I call it out and kill
everything.  However, I still see the crash and I never see any 
errors come back from the system calls.  That tells me that it is not
the application code, but something else.

Has anyone seen something similar to this before?

Thanks,

Jonathan