On Fri, 7 Apr 2017, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Fri 07-04-17 09:25:33, Hugh Dickins wrote: > [...] > > 24 hours so far, and with a clean /var/log/messages. Not conclusive > > yet, and of course I'll leave it running another couple of days, but > > I'm increasingly sure that it works as you intended: I agree that > > > > mm-move-pcp-and-lru-pcp-drainging-into-single-wq.patch > > mm-move-pcp-and-lru-pcp-drainging-into-single-wq-fix.patch > > > > should go to Linus as soon as convenient. Though I think the commit > > message needs something a bit stronger than "Quite annoying though". > > Maybe add a line: > > > > Fixes serious hang under load, observed repeatedly on 4.11-rc. > > Yeah, it is much less theoretical now. I will rephrase and ask Andrew to > update the chagelog and send it to Linus once I've got your final go. I don't know akpm's timetable, but your fix being more than a two-liner, I think it would be better if it could get into rc6, than wait another week for rc7, just in case others then find problems with it. So I think it's safer *not* to wait for my final go, but proceed on the assumption that it will follow a day later. Hugh -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>
