linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation/driver-api/cxl: remove page-allocator quirk section

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Message-ID: <87bjlibsdi.fsf@trenco.lwn.net>
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2025 16:36:57 -0700
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To: Gregory Price <gourry@...rry.net>, linux-cxl@...r.kernel.org
Cc: dave@...olabs.net, jonathan.cameron@...wei.com, dave.jiang@...el.com,
 alison.schofield@...el.com, vishal.l.verma@...el.com, ira.weiny@...el.com,
 dan.j.williams@...el.com, gourry@...rry.net, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/driver-api/cxl: remove page-allocator
 quirk section

Gregory Price <gourry@...rry.net> writes:

> The node/zone quirk section of the cxl documentation is incorrect.
> The actual reason for fallback allocation misbehavior in the
> described configuration is due to a kswapd/reclaim thrashing scenario
> fixed by the linked patch.  Remove this section.
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20250919162134.1098208-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org/
> Signed-off-by: Gregory Price <gourry@...rry.net>
> ---
>  .../cxl/allocation/page-allocator.rst         | 31 -------------------
>  1 file changed, 31 deletions(-)

This patch is still outstanding...should I take it through docs?

Thanks,

jon