On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 12:51:15AM +0000, Shakeel Butt wrote: > On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 4:52 PM <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > mm, mlock, vmscan: no more skipping pagevecs > > > to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary > > > The filename of the patch is: > > mm-mlock-vmscan-no-more-skipping-pagevecs.patch > > and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. > > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, > > please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. > > > I would advise not to include this patch in the previous stable trees. This > patch does not fix any critical bug and for some very specific > microbenchmarks on very large machines, it has shown performance > regression. So, I don't think it is worth the risk. thanks, now dropped. Hopefully this gets fixed in Linus's tree :) greg k-h
