With Daniel Phillips Patch (was: aic7xxx with 2.4.9 on 7899P)

[Sven Heinicke]

Forgive the sin of replying to my own message but Daniel Phillips
replied to a different message with a patch to somebody getting a
similar error to mine.  Here is the result:

Aug 20 15:10:33 ps1 kernel: cation failed (gfp=0x30/1). 
Aug 20 15:10:33 ps1 kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
(gfp=0x30/1). 
Aug 20 15:10:46 ps1 last message repeated 327 times 
Aug 20 15:10:47 ps1 kernel: cation failed (gfp=0x30/1). 
Aug 20 15:10:47 ps1 kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
(gfp=0x30/1). 
Aug 20 15:10:56 ps1 last message repeated 294 times 

Sven Heinicke writes:
 > 
 > It's always a blessing and a curse when people seem to be haveing
 > problems with the same drivers as you.  I started looking into this
 > when I user complained about disk access time.  I think this is
 > related to the running aic7xxx topics.
 > 
 > From my tests, I got a Dell 4400 who's Adaptec 7899P, according to
 > bonnie++, was writing slower then some of my my IDE drives on a
 > different system.  I tried Red Hat's 2.4.3-12smp kernel and got a
 > little improvement.  I then built 2.4.9 and started running bonnie++
 > again and my syslog gets filled up with such errors:
 > 
 > Aug 20 14:23:33 ps1 kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order all
 > Aug 20 14:23:36 ps1 last message repeated 376 times
 > Aug 20 14:23:36 ps1 kernel: ed.
 > Aug 20 14:23:36 ps1 kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order all
 > Aug 20 14:23:44 ps1 last message repeated 376 times
 > Aug 20 14:23:44 ps1 kernel: ed.
 > Aug 20 14:23:44 ps1 kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order all
 > Aug 20 14:23:44 ps1 last message repeated 363 times
 > 
 > With slow access time.  Please request more info if you think it might
 > help.
 > 
 > 	Sven
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