On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:14:47 -0500 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The temptation is to supply a patch that checks if kswapd was woken for > > THP and if so ignore pgdat->kswapd_max_order but it'll be a hack and not > > backed up by proper testing. As 3.7 is very close to release and this is > > not a bug we should release with, a safer path is to revert "mm: remove > > __GFP_NO_KSWAPD" for now and revisit it with the view to ironing out the > > balance_pgdat() logic in general. > > > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> > > Does anyone know if this is queued to go into 3.7 somewhere? I looked > a bit and can't find it in a tree. We have a few reports of Fedora > rawhide users hitting this. Still thinking about it. We're reverting quite a lot of material lately. mm-revert-mm-vmscan-scale-number-of-pages-reclaimed-by-reclaim-compaction-based-on-failures.patch and revert-mm-fix-up-zone-present-pages.patch are queued for 3.7. I'll toss this one in there as well, but I can't say I'm feeling terribly confident. How is Valdis's machine nowadays? -- 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>