Re: [RFC PATCH] mm: don't reclaim inodes with many attached pages

Matthew Wilcox
2018-10-25T20:27:12Z

On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 04:20:14PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 12:44:42PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Yup. Sasha, can you please take care of this?
>
> Sure, I'll revert it from current stable trees.
>
> Should 172b06c32b94 and this commit be backported once Roman confirms
> the issue is fixed? As far as I understand 172b06c32b94 addressed an
> issue FB were seeing in their fleet and needed to be fixed.

I'm not sure I see "FB sees an issue in their fleet" and "needs to be
fixed in stable kernels" as related. FB's workload is different from
most people's workloads and FB has a large and highly-skilled team of
kernel engineers. Obviously I want this problem fixed in mainline,
but I don't know that most people benefit from having it fixed in stable.