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

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Message-ID: <39ddd86e-f635-40f9-b3b7-0d1583b6bb6e@intel.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2025 16:41:15 -0700
From: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Gregory Price <gourry@...rry.net>,
 linux-cxl@...r.kernel.org
Cc: dave@...olabs.net, jonathan.cameron@...wei.com,
 alison.schofield@...el.com, vishal.l.verma@...el.com, ira.weiny@...el.com,
 dan.j.williams@...el.com, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/driver-api/cxl: remove page-allocator quirk
 section



On 11/3/25 4:36 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> 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?

I just pushed it to cxl/next this morning. Thanks. 

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> jon