Re: [Xen-devel] xenwatch: page allocation failure: order:4, mode:0x10c0d0 xen_netback:xenvif_alloc: Could not allocate netdev for vif16.0

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 01:41:12PM +0000, David Vrabel wrote:
> On 19/11/13 13:02, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
> > Hi Wei,
> > 
> > I ran into the following problem when trying to boot another guest after 
> > less than a day of uptime.
> > (the system started 15 guests at boot already which went fine). dom0 is 
> > allocated a fixed 1536M.
> > 
> > Both host as pv guests run the same kernel, some hvm's run a slightly older 
> > kernel (3.9 f.e.)
> > 
> > The are quite some granttable messages in xl dmesg, i also included these 
> > and a "vmstat -m"
> 
> Thread-per-VIF made the VIF's net device structure enormous.
> 
> This is fixed by 74d332c13b2148ae934ea94dac1745ae92efe8e5 (net: extend
> net_device allocation to vmalloc()).
> 

Thanks David.

Sander, you can also try to cherry-pick the above patch to see if it
works.

Wei.

> David

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