linux-kernel - Re: QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER: not working in 2.6.24 ?

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Message-ID: <4761D160.7060603@rtr.ca>
Date:	Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:42:08 -0500
From:	Mark Lord <liml@....ca>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com, jens.axboe@...cle.com,
	lkml@....ca, matthew@....cx, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, mel@....ul.ie
Subject: Re: QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER: not working in 2.6.24 ?

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:30:00 -0500
> Mark Lord <liml@....ca> wrote:
> 
>> Here's the commit that causes the regression:
>>
>> ...
>>
>> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
>> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
>> @@ -760,7 +760,8 @@ static int rmqueue_bulk(struct zone *zone, unsigned int order,
>>  		struct page *page = __rmqueue(zone, order, migratetype);
>>  		if (unlikely(page == NULL))
>>  			break;
>> -		list_add_tail(&page->lru, list);
>> +		list_add(&page->lru, list);
> 
> well that looks fishy.
..

Yeah.  I missed that, and instead just posted a patch
to search the list in reverse order, which seems to work for me.

I'll try just reversing that line above here now.. gimme 5 minutes or so.

Cheers
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