linux-kernel - Re: The patch "mm, page_alloc: avoid looking up the first zone in a zonelist twice" breaks memory management

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Date:	Wed, 1 Jun 2016 08:26:47 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>
To:	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
cc:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org,
	Helge Deller <deller@....de>
Subject: Re: The patch "mm, page_alloc: avoid looking up the first zone in
 a zonelist twice" breaks memory management



On Tue, 31 May 2016, Vlastimil Babka wrote:

> On 05/31/2016 11:20 PM, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > The patch c33d6c06f60f710f0305ae792773e1c2560e1e51 ("mm, page_alloc: avoid 
> > looking up the first zone in a zonelist twice") breaks memory management 
> > on PA-RISC.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I think the linked patch should help. Please try and report.
> 
> http://marc.info/?i=20160531100848.GR2527%40techsingularity.net
> 
> Thanks,
> Vlastimil

Thanks, that patch fixes it.

Mikulas