linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/34] Memory management performance backports for -stable V2

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Message-ID: <20120725223057.GA4253@kroah.com>
Date:	Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:30:57 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
Cc:	Stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/34] Memory management performance backports for
 -stable V2

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 02:38:13PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Changelog since V1
>   o Expand some of the notes					(jrnieder)
>   o Correct upstream commit SHA1				(hugh)
> 
> This series is related to the new addition to stable_kernel_rules.txt
> 
>  - Serious issues as reported by a user of a distribution kernel may also
>    be considered if they fix a notable performance or interactivity issue.
>    As these fixes are not as obvious and have a higher risk of a subtle
>    regression they should only be submitted by a distribution kernel
>    maintainer and include an addendum linking to a bugzilla entry if it
>    exists and additional information on the user-visible impact.
> 
> All of these patches have been backported to a distribution kernel and
> address some sort of performance issue in the VM. As they are not all
> obvious, I've added a "Stable note" to the top of each patch giving
> additional information on why the patch was backported. Lets see where
> the boundaries lie on how this new rule is interpreted in practice :).
> 
> Patch 1	Performance fix for tmpfs
> Patch 2 Memory hotadd fix
> Patch 3 Reduce boot time on large machines
> Patches 4-5 Reduce stalls for wait_iff_congested
> Patches 6-8 Reduce excessive reclaim of slab objects which for some workloads
> 	will reduce the amount of IO required
> Patches 9-10 limits the amount of page reclaim when THP/Compaction is active.
> 	Excessive reclaim in low memory situations can lead to stalls some
> 	of which are user visible.
> Patches 11-19 reduce the amount of churn of the LRU lists. Poor reclaim
> 	decisions can impair workloads in different ways and there have
> 	been complaints recently the reclaim decisions of modern kernels
> 	are worse than older ones.
> Patches 20-21 reduce the amount of CPU kswapd uses in some cases. This
> 	is harder to trigger but were developed due to bug reports about
> 	100% CPU usage from kswapd.
> Patches 22-25 are mostly related to interactivity when THP is enabled.
> Patches 26-30 are also related to page reclaim decisions, particularly
> 	the residency of mapped pages.
> Patches 31-34 fix a major page allocator performance regression
> 
> All of the patches will apply to 3.0-stable but the ordering of the
> patches is such that applying them to 3.2-stable and 3.4-stable should
> be straight-forward.

I can't find any of these that should have gone to 3.4-stable, given
that they all were included in 3.4 already, right?

I've queued up the whole lot for the 3.0-stable tree, thanks so much for
providing them.

greg k-h
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