Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:49:31 +0000 | From | Mel Gorman <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Avoid the use of congestion_wait under zone pressure |
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On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 07:38:37PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > 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. >
Great.
> > 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. >
Right, I won't lose any sleep over 2.6.30.dodo so :)
Thanks
-- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab
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