On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 10:04:03 +0100 Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 12:01:43PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Tue, 23 Apr 2019 15:08:06 +0300 Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Commit 0a79cdad5eb2 ("mm: use alloc_flags to record if kswapd can wake")
> > > removed setting of the ALLOC_NOFRAGMENT flag. Bring it back.
> >
> > What are the runtime effects of this fix?
>
> The runtime effect is that ALLOC_NOFRAGMENT behaviour is restored so
> that allocations are spread across local zones to avoid fragmentation
> due to mixing pageblocks as long as possible.
OK, thanks. Is this worth a -stable backport?
