On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:50:54PM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote: > 2. TTY using high order allocations more frequently > fix title: ttyfix > fixed in mainline? yes, in 2.6.34-rc2 > affects: 2.6.31 to 2.6.34-rc1 > > 2.6.31 made pty's use the same buffering logic as tty. Unfortunately, > it was also allowed to make high-order GFP_ATOMIC allocations. This > triggers some high-order reclaim and introduces some stalls. It's > fixed in 2.6.34-rc2 but needs back-porting. It will go to the other stable kernels for their next round of releases now that it is in Linus's tree. > Next Steps > ========== > > Jens, any problems with me backporting the async/sync fixes from 2.6.31 to > 2.6.30.x (assuming that is still maintained, Greg?)? No, .30 is no longer being maintained. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>