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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Sasha Levin <Alexander.Levin@microsoft.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	"stable@vger.kernel.org" <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] memcg: fix per_node_info cleanup
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 22:37:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180410203749.GW21835@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180410175510.GH2341@sasha-vm>

On Tue 10-04-18 17:55:13, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 04:01:32PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> >On Tue 10-04-18 13:50:30, Sasha Levin wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> [This is an automated email]
> >>
> >> This commit has been processed because it contains a "Fixes:" tag,
> >> fixing commit: 00f3ca2c2d66 mm: memcontrol: per-lruvec stats infrastructure.
> >
> >Yes and the changelog states conditions which are quite hard to achieve
> >to have this patch in the stable tree. So I am not really convinced it
> >is worth backporting even though the patch itself is trivial.
> 
> Quite hard to achieve, but the changelog also indicated that this was
> actually hit and is not just theoretical. Is there something that will
> prevent this from happening on "real" workloads?

Well, small allocations do not really fail and it would take to
configure a really large NUMA system to achieve the same. So I am
skeptical.

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

      reply	other threads:[~2018-04-10 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20180406100906.17790-1-mhocko@kernel.org>
2018-04-10 13:50 ` [PATCH] memcg: fix per_node_info cleanup Sasha Levin
2018-04-10 14:01   ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-10 17:55     ` Sasha Levin
2018-04-10 20:37       ` Michal Hocko [this message]

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