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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
	Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Avoid the use of congestion_wait under zone pressure
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:38:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100324023837.GH4359@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100322235053.GD9590@csn.ul.ie>

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:50:54PM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> 2. TTY using high order allocations more frequently
> 	fix title: ttyfix
> 	fixed in mainline? yes, in 2.6.34-rc2
> 	affects: 2.6.31 to 2.6.34-rc1
> 
> 	2.6.31 made pty's use the same buffering logic as tty.	Unfortunately,
> 	it was also allowed to make high-order GFP_ATOMIC allocations. This
> 	triggers some high-order reclaim and introduces some stalls. It's
> 	fixed in 2.6.34-rc2 but needs back-porting.

It will go to the other stable kernels for their next round of releases
now that it is in Linus's tree.

> Next Steps
> ==========
> 
> Jens, any problems with me backporting the async/sync fixes from 2.6.31 to
> 2.6.30.x (assuming that is still maintained, Greg?)?

No, .30 is no longer being maintained.

thanks,

greg k-h

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-03-24  2:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-08 11:48 [RFC PATCH 0/3] Avoid the use of congestion_wait under zone pressure Mel Gorman
2010-03-08 11:48 ` [PATCH 1/3] page-allocator: Under memory pressure, wait on pressure to relieve instead of congestion Mel Gorman
2010-03-09 13:35   ` Nick Piggin
2010-03-09 14:17     ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-09 15:03       ` Nick Piggin
2010-03-09 15:42         ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-03-09 18:22           ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-10  2:38             ` Nick Piggin
2010-03-09 17:35         ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-10  2:35           ` Nick Piggin
2010-03-09 15:50   ` Christoph Lameter
2010-03-09 15:56     ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-03-09 16:09       ` Christoph Lameter
2010-03-09 17:01         ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-09 17:11           ` Christoph Lameter
2010-03-09 17:30             ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-08 11:48 ` [PATCH 2/3] page-allocator: Check zone pressure when batch of pages are freed Mel Gorman
2010-03-09  9:53   ` Nick Piggin
2010-03-09 10:08     ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-09 10:23       ` Nick Piggin
2010-03-09 10:36         ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-09 11:11           ` Nick Piggin
2010-03-09 11:29             ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-08 11:48 ` [PATCH 3/3] vmscan: Put kswapd to sleep on its own waitqueue, not congestion Mel Gorman
2010-03-09 10:00   ` Nick Piggin
2010-03-09 10:21     ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-09 10:32       ` Nick Piggin
2010-03-11 23:41 ` [RFC PATCH 0/3] Avoid the use of congestion_wait under zone pressure Andrew Morton
2010-03-12  6:39   ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-03-12  7:05     ` Andrew Morton
2010-03-12 10:47       ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-12 12:15         ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-03-12 14:37           ` Andrew Morton
2010-03-15 12:29             ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-15 14:45               ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-03-15 12:34             ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-03-15 20:09               ` Andrew Morton
2010-03-16 10:11                 ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-18 17:42                 ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-22 23:50                 ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-23 14:35                   ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-03-23 21:35                   ` Corrado Zoccolo
2010-03-24 11:48                     ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-24 12:56                       ` Corrado Zoccolo
2010-03-23 22:29                   ` Rik van Riel
2010-03-24 14:50                     ` Mel Gorman
2010-04-19 12:22                       ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-04-19 21:44                         ` Johannes Weiner
2010-04-20  7:20                           ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-04-20  8:54                             ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-04-20 15:32                             ` Johannes Weiner
2010-04-20 17:22                               ` Rik van Riel
2010-04-21  4:23                                 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-04-21  7:35                                   ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-04-21 13:19                                     ` Rik van Riel
2010-04-22  6:21                                       ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-04-26 10:59                                         ` Subject: [PATCH][RFC] mm: make working set portion that is protected tunable v2 Christian Ehrhardt
2010-04-26 11:59                                           ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-04-26 12:43                                             ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-04-26 14:20                                               ` Rik van Riel
2010-04-27 14:00                                                 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-04-21  9:03                                   ` [RFC PATCH 0/3] Avoid the use of congestion_wait under zone pressure Johannes Weiner
2010-04-21 13:20                                   ` Rik van Riel
2010-04-20 14:40                           ` Rik van Riel
2010-03-24  2:38                   ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-03-24 11:49                     ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-24 13:13                   ` Johannes Weiner
2010-03-12  9:09   ` Mel Gorman

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