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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	 Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	 "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
	 Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [patch for-5.3 0/4] revert immediate fallback to remote hugepages
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2019 12:55:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wifuQ68e6Q4F2txGS48WgcoX2REE4te5_j36ypV-T2ZKw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1909071249180.81471@chino.kir.corp.google.com>

On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 12:51 PM David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> wrote:
>
> Andrea acknowledges the swap storm that he reported would be fixed with
> the last two patches in this series

The problem is that even you aren't arguing that those patches should
go into 5.3.

So those fixes aren't going in, so "the swap storms would be fixed"
argument isn't actually an argument at all as far as 5.3 is concerned.

End result: we'd have the qemu-kvm instance performance problem in 5.3
that apparently causes distros to apply those patches that you want to
revert anyway.

So reverting would just make distros not use 5.3 in that form.

So I don't think we can revert those again without applying the two
patches in the series. So it would be a 5.4 merge window operation.

               Linus


  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-07 19:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-04 19:54 David Rientjes
2019-09-04 19:54 ` [rfc 3/4] mm, page_alloc: avoid expensive reclaim when compaction may not succeed David Rientjes
2019-09-05  9:00   ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-05 11:22     ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-09-05 20:53       ` Mike Kravetz
2019-09-06 20:16         ` David Rientjes
2019-09-06 20:49       ` David Rientjes
2019-09-04 20:43 ` [patch for-5.3 0/4] revert immediate fallback to remote hugepages Linus Torvalds
2019-09-05 20:54   ` David Rientjes
2019-09-07 19:51     ` David Rientjes
2019-09-07 19:55       ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2019-09-08  1:50         ` David Rientjes
2019-09-08 12:47           ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-09-08 20:45             ` David Rientjes
2019-09-09  8:37               ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-04 20:55 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-05 21:06   ` David Rientjes
2019-09-09 19:30     ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-25  7:08       ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-26 19:03         ` David Rientjes
2019-09-27  7:48           ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-28 20:59             ` Linus Torvalds
2019-09-30 11:28               ` Michal Hocko
2019-10-01  5:43                 ` Michal Hocko
2019-10-01  8:37                   ` Michal Hocko
2019-10-18 14:15                     ` Michal Hocko
2019-10-23 11:03                       ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-10-24 18:59                         ` David Rientjes
2019-10-29 14:14                           ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-10-29 15:15                             ` Michal Hocko
2019-10-29 21:33                               ` Andrew Morton
2019-10-29 21:45                                 ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-10-29 23:25                                 ` David Rientjes
2019-11-05 13:02                                   ` Michal Hocko
2019-11-06  1:01                                     ` David Rientjes
2019-11-06  7:35                                       ` Michal Hocko
2019-11-06 21:32                                         ` David Rientjes
2019-11-13 11:20                                           ` Mel Gorman
2019-11-25  0:10                                             ` David Rientjes
2019-11-25 11:47                                               ` Michal Hocko
2019-11-25 20:38                                                 ` David Rientjes
2019-11-25 21:34                                                   ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-10-01 13:50                   ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-10-01 20:31                     ` David Rientjes
2019-10-01 21:54                       ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-10-02 10:34                         ` Michal Hocko
2019-10-02 22:32                           ` David Rientjes
2019-10-03  8:00                             ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-10-04 12:18                               ` Michal Hocko

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