From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Salvatore Dipietro <dipiets@amazon.it>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] mm/page_alloc: avoid direct compaction for costly __GFP_NORETRY allocations
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:35:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260918143502.b4fb3587b64e260e14485348@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23676471-d90c-40cd-a357-e71b3d426425@kernel.org>
On Fri, 18 Sep 2026 08:40:05 +0200 "Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" <vbabka@kernel.org> wrote:
> On 9/18/26 08:32, Salvatore Dipietro wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 15, 2026 at 04:17:00PM +0000, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> >> It would be possible to remove the costly_order gate here and just
> >> bail on __GFP_NORETRY. But no strong feelings.
> >
> > Will do, I'll drop the costly_order gate and bail on __GFP_NORETRY.
> >
> > Andrew, since you dropped v5 and restored v4 in mm-unstable, I'll send a
> > v6 (v4 plus the above change) unless you'd rather have an incremental
> > patch on top of v4. Let me know if anything else is needed on my side.
>
> v4 is in mm-hotfixes-stable now, so an incremental fix will be easier now I
> think.
>
I just demoted it into mm-hotfixes-unstable.
So a clean v6 would be best now, please.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-18 21:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-11 14:21 [PATCH v5] mm/page_alloc: avoid direct compaction for costly __GFP_NORETRY allocations Salvatore Dipietro
2026-09-11 15:37 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-11 16:32 ` Andrew Morton
2026-09-15 16:00 ` Salvatore Dipietro
2026-09-15 16:17 ` Johannes Weiner
2026-09-18 6:32 ` Salvatore Dipietro
2026-09-18 6:40 ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-09-18 21:35 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2026-10-01 8:31 ` Salvatore Dipietro
2026-09-11 20:44 ` Johannes Weiner
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