Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S946398AbdDTOan (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Apr 2017 10:30:43 -0400 Received: from outbound-smtp02.blacknight.com ([81.17.249.8]:35078 "EHLO outbound-smtp02.blacknight.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1032431AbdDTOaj (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Apr 2017 10:30:39 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 15:30:33 +0100 From: Mel Gorman To: Jesper Dangaard Brouer Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Frederic Weisbecker , Tariq Toukan , LKML , linux-mm , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , peterz@infradead.org Subject: Re: Heads-up: two regressions in v4.11-rc series Message-ID: <20170420143033.3nzi6nruqd5s3n7f@techsingularity.net> References: <20170420110042.73d01e0f@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170420110042.73d01e0f@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.2 (2016-07-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 897 Lines: 23 On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 11:00:42AM +0200, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote: > Hi Linus, > > Just wanted to give a heads-up on two regressions in 4.11-rc series. > > (1) page allocator optimization revert > > Mel Gorman and I have been playing with optimizing the page allocator, > but Tariq spotted that we caused a regression for (NIC) drivers that > refill DMA RX rings in softirq context. > > The end result was a revert, and this is waiting in AKPMs quilt queue: > http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/revert-mm-page_alloc-only-use-per-cpu-allocator-for-irq-safe-requests.patch > This was flagged to Andrew that it should go in for either 4.11 or if there were concerns about how close to the release we are then put it in for 4.11-stable. At worst, I can do a resubmit to -stable myself after it gets merged in the next window if it falls between the cracks. -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs