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Date: Wed, 2 May 2018 08:23:33 -0700
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
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Subject: Re: Patch "mm, mlock, vmscan: no more skipping pagevecs" has been
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On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 12:51:15AM +0000, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 4:52 PM <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> 
> >      mm, mlock, vmscan: no more skipping pagevecs
> 
> > to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
> 
> http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> 
> > The filename of the patch is:
> >       mm-mlock-vmscan-no-more-skipping-pagevecs.patch
> > and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
> 
> > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> > please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
> 
> 
> I would advise not to include this patch in the previous stable trees. This
> patch does not fix any critical bug and for some very specific
> microbenchmarks on very large machines, it has shown performance
> regression. So, I don't think it is worth the risk.

thanks, now dropped.  Hopefully this gets fixed in Linus's tree :)

greg k-h