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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/34] vmscan: add shrink_slab tracepoints
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:30:17 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120719203017.GC19392@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1342708604-26540-7-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de>

Mel Gorman wrote:

> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
>
> commit 095760730c1047c69159ce88021a7fa3833502c8 upstream.
>
> Stable note: Not tracked in Bugzilla. This is a diagnostic patch that
> 	was part of a series addressing excessive slab shrinking after
> 	GFP_NOFS failures. There is detailed information on the series'
> 	motivation at https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/2/42 .

Thanks.  Why would we want this particular patch in stable@?  It
doesn't sound like it fixes a serious issue.

Curious,
Jonathan

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-19 20:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-19 14:36 [PATCH 00/34] Memory management performance backports for -stable Mel Gorman
2012-07-19 14:36 ` [PATCH 01/34] mm: vmstat: cache align vm_stat Mel Gorman
2012-07-19 14:36 ` [PATCH 02/34] mm: memory hotplug: Check if pages are correctly reserved on a per-section basis Mel Gorman
2012-07-19 14:36 ` [PATCH 03/34] mm: Reduce the amount of work done when updating min_free_kbytes Mel Gorman
2012-07-19 14:36 ` [PATCH 04/34] mm: vmscan: fix force-scanning small targets without swap Mel Gorman
2012-07-19 14:36 ` [PATCH 05/34] vmscan: clear ZONE_CONGESTED for zone with good watermark Mel Gorman
2012-07-19 14:36 ` [PATCH 06/34] vmscan: add shrink_slab tracepoints Mel Gorman
2012-07-19 20:30   ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2012-07-19 22:04     ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-19 22:07       ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-07-20 10:06         ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-20 15:54           ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-07-23  9:20             ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-19 14:36 ` [PATCH 07/34] vmscan: shrinker->nr updates race and go wrong Mel Gorman
2012-07-19 14:36 ` [PATCH 08/34] vmscan: reduce wind up shrinker->nr when shrinker can't do work Mel Gorman
2012-07-19 14:36 ` [PATCH 09/34] mm: limit direct reclaim for higher order allocations Mel Gorman
2012-07-19 14:36 ` [PATCH 10/34] mm: Abort reclaim/compaction if compaction can proceed Mel Gorman
2012-07-19 14:36 ` [PATCH 11/34] mm: compaction: trivial clean up in acct_isolated() Mel Gorman
2012-07-19 14:36 ` [PATCH 12/34] mm: change isolate mode from #define to bitwise type Mel Gorman
2012-07-19 14:36 ` [PATCH 13/34] mm: compaction: make isolate_lru_page() filter-aware Mel Gorman
2012-07-19 14:36 ` [PATCH 14/34] mm: zone_reclaim: " Mel Gorman
2012-07-19 14:36 ` [PATCH 15/34] mm: migration: clean up unmap_and_move() Mel Gorman
2012-07-19 14:36 ` [PATCH 16/34] mm: compaction: Allow compaction to isolate dirty pages Mel Gorman
2012-07-19 14:36 ` [PATCH 17/34] mm: compaction: Determine if dirty pages can be migrated without blocking within ->migratepage Mel Gorman
2012-07-19 14:36 ` [PATCH 18/34] mm: page allocator: Do not call direct reclaim for THP allocations while compaction is deferred Mel Gorman
2012-07-19 14:36 ` [PATCH 19/34] mm: compaction: make isolate_lru_page() filter-aware again Mel Gorman
2012-07-19 14:36 ` [PATCH 20/34] kswapd: avoid unnecessary rebalance after an unsuccessful balancing Mel Gorman
2012-07-19 14:36 ` [PATCH 21/34] kswapd: assign new_order and new_classzone_idx after wakeup in sleeping Mel Gorman
2012-07-22 19:25   ` Hugh Dickins
2012-07-23  9:37     ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-19 14:36 ` [PATCH 22/34] mm: compaction: Introduce sync-light migration for use by compaction Mel Gorman
2012-07-19 14:36 ` [PATCH 23/34] mm: vmscan: When reclaiming for compaction, ensure there are sufficient free pages available Mel Gorman
2012-07-19 14:36 ` [PATCH 24/34] mm: vmscan: Do not OOM if aborting reclaim to start compaction Mel Gorman
2012-07-19 14:36 ` [PATCH 25/34] mm: vmscan: Check if reclaim should really abort even if compaction_ready() is true for one zone Mel Gorman
2012-07-19 14:36 ` [PATCH 26/34] vmscan: promote shared file mapped pages Mel Gorman
2012-07-19 14:36 ` [PATCH 27/34] vmscan: activate executable pages after first usage Mel Gorman
2012-07-19 14:36 ` [PATCH 28/34] mm/vmscan.c: consider swap space when deciding whether to continue reclaim Mel Gorman
2012-07-19 14:36 ` [PATCH 29/34] mm: test PageSwapBacked in lumpy reclaim Mel Gorman
2012-07-19 14:36 ` [PATCH 30/34] mm: vmscan: Do not force kswapd to scan small targets Mel Gorman
2012-07-19 20:37   ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-07-19 22:08     ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-19 14:36 ` [PATCH 31/34] cpusets: avoid looping when storing to mems_allowed if one node remains set Mel Gorman
2012-07-19 14:36 ` [PATCH 32/34] cpusets: stall when updating mems_allowed for mempolicy or disjoint nodemask Mel Gorman
2012-07-19 14:36 ` [PATCH 33/34] cpuset: mm: Reduce large amounts of memory barrier related damage v3 Mel Gorman
2012-07-19 14:36 ` [PATCH 34/34] mm/hugetlb: fix warning in alloc_huge_page/dequeue_huge_page_vma Mel Gorman
2012-07-19 20:25   ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-07-19 21:53     ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-22 22:58 ` [PATCH 00/34] Memory management performance backports for -stable Ben Hutchings
2012-07-23  9:16   ` Mel Gorman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-07-23 13:38 [PATCH 00/34] Memory management performance backports for -stable V2 Mel Gorman
2012-07-23 13:38 ` [PATCH 06/34] vmscan: add shrink_slab tracepoints Mel Gorman

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