linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] mempool: do not consume memory reserves from the reclaim path

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Date:	Fri, 22 Jul 2016 14:26:19 +0200
From:	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>,
	Ondrej Kozina <okozina@...hat.com>,
	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, dm-devel@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] mempool: do not consume memory reserves from the
 reclaim path

On 07/22/2016 08:37 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 21-07-16 16:53:09, Michal Hocko wrote:
>> From d64815758c212643cc1750774e2751721685059a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
>> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 16:40:59 +0200
>> Subject: [PATCH] Revert "mm, mempool: only set __GFP_NOMEMALLOC if there are
>>  free elements"
>>
>> This reverts commit f9054c70d28bc214b2857cf8db8269f4f45a5e23.
>
> I've noticed that Andrew has already picked this one up. Is anybody
> against marking it for stable?

It would be strange to have different behavior with known regression in 
4.6 and 4.7 stables. Actually, there's still time for 4.7 proper?

Vlastimil