Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:51:24 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Revert "mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD" |
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On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:14:47 -0500 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The temptation is to supply a patch that checks if kswapd was woken for > > THP and if so ignore pgdat->kswapd_max_order but it'll be a hack and not > > backed up by proper testing. As 3.7 is very close to release and this is > > not a bug we should release with, a safer path is to revert "mm: remove > > __GFP_NO_KSWAPD" for now and revisit it with the view to ironing out the > > balance_pgdat() logic in general. > > > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> > > Does anyone know if this is queued to go into 3.7 somewhere? I looked > a bit and can't find it in a tree. We have a few reports of Fedora > rawhide users hitting this.
Still thinking about it. We're reverting quite a lot of material lately. mm-revert-mm-vmscan-scale-number-of-pages-reclaimed-by-reclaim-compaction-based-on-failures.patch and revert-mm-fix-up-zone-present-pages.patch are queued for 3.7.
I'll toss this one in there as well, but I can't say I'm feeling terribly confident. How is Valdis's machine nowadays?
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