Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:38:37 -0700 | | From | Greg KH <> | | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Avoid the use of congestion_wait under zone pressure |
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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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