kswapd/tg3 issue

[Yaroslav Halchenko <yoh@psychology.rutgers.edu>]

Dear Kernel People,

Just got a logwatch daily mail which revealed a problem:
[2024412.788680] kswapd1: page allocation failure. order:2, mode:0x20
and a lengthy backtrace with head

,------------------------------------------------------------------------
| [2024412.795212] Call Trace:
| [2024412.799768]  <IRQ> [<ffffffff8020c852>] __alloc_pages+0x27a/0x291
| [2024412.806452]  [<ffffffff802a08e3>] kmem_getpages+0x5e/0xd8
| [2024412.812370]  [<ffffffff80212c68>] cache_grow+0xd0/0x185
| [2024412.818064]  [<ffffffff80245c4f>] cache_alloc_refill+0x18c/0x1da
| [2024412.824625]  [<ffffffff802a1979>] __kmalloc+0x93/0xa3
| [2024412.830145]  [<ffffffff80222e9e>] __alloc_skb+0x54/0x117
| [2024412.835958]  [<ffffffff803b8a55>] __netdev_alloc_skb+0x12/0x2d
| [2024412.842347]  [<ffffffff80370292>] tg3_alloc_rx_skb+0xbb/0x146
`---
full dmesg is at
http://www.onerussian.com/Linux/bugs/bug.kswapd/dmesg

is that critical? seems to behave ok but...

More details on the system and error in particular can be
http://www.onerussian.com/Linux/bugs/bug.kswapd/

-- 
Yaroslav Halchenko
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