From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [ 36/40] mm: vmscan: convert global reclaim to per-memcg LRU lists
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 08:29:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120730152944.GA21091@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1343607917.4642.29.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk>
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 01:25:17AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 14:29 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> >
> > 3.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> >
> > ------------------
> >
> > From: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
> >
> > commit b95a2f2d486d0d768a92879c023a03757b9c7e58 upstream - WARNING: this is a substitute patch.
> >
> > Stable note: Not tracked in Bugzilla. This is a partial backport of an
> > upstream commit addressing a completely different issue
> > that accidentally contained an important fix. The workload
> > this patch helps was memcached when IO is started in the
> > background. memcached should stay resident but without this patch
> > it gets swapped. Sometimes this manifests as a drop in throughput
> > but mostly it was observed through /proc/vmstat.
> [...]
> > The impact of the accidental fix is to make it harder for kswapd to force
> > scan small targets by taking zone->all_unreclaimable into account. This
> > patch is the closest equivalent available based on what is backported.
> >
> > ---
> > mm/vmscan.c | 3 ++-
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> [...]
>
> This is missing sign-offs.
Oops, my fault, somehow they got lost, I'll go add them back (it's just
Mel's and mine.)
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-30 15:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-26 21:14 [ 00/40] 3.0.39-stable review Greg KH
2012-07-26 21:29 ` [ 01/40] cifs: always update the inode cache with the results from a FIND_* Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:29 ` [ 02/40] ntp: Fix STA_INS/DEL clearing bug Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:29 ` [ 03/40] mm: fix lost kswapd wakeup in kswapd_stop() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:29 ` [ 04/40] MIPS: Properly align the .data..init_task section Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:29 ` [ 05/40] UBIFS: fix a bug in empty space fix-up Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:29 ` [ 06/40] dm raid1: fix crash with mirror recovery and discard Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:29 ` [ 07/40] mm/vmstat.c: cache align vm_stat Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:29 ` [ 08/40] mm: memory hotplug: Check if pages are correctly reserved on a per-section basis Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:29 ` [ 09/40] mm: reduce the amount of work done when updating min_free_kbytes Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:29 ` [ 10/40] mm: vmscan: fix force-scanning small targets without swap Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:29 ` [ 11/40] vmscan: clear ZONE_CONGESTED for zone with good watermark Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:29 ` [ 12/40] vmscan: add shrink_slab tracepoints Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:29 ` [ 13/40] vmscan: shrinker->nr updates race and go wrong Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-29 20:29 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-07-30 9:06 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-30 15:41 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:29 ` [ 14/40] vmscan: reduce wind up shrinker->nr when shrinker cant do work Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:29 ` [ 15/40] vmscan: limit direct reclaim for higher order allocations Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:29 ` [ 16/40] vmscan: abort reclaim/compaction if compaction can proceed Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:29 ` [ 17/40] mm: compaction: trivial clean up in acct_isolated() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:29 ` [ 18/40] mm: change isolate mode from #define to bitwise type Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:29 ` [ 19/40] mm: compaction: make isolate_lru_page() filter-aware Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:29 ` [ 20/40] mm: zone_reclaim: " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:29 ` [ 21/40] mm: migration: clean up unmap_and_move() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:29 ` [ 22/40] mm: compaction: allow compaction to isolate dirty pages Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:29 ` [ 23/40] mm: compaction: determine if dirty pages can be migrated without blocking within ->migratepage Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:29 ` [ 24/40] mm: page allocator: do not call direct reclaim for THP allocations while compaction is deferred Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:29 ` [ 25/40] mm: compaction: make isolate_lru_page() filter-aware again Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:29 ` [ 26/40] kswapd: avoid unnecessary rebalance after an unsuccessful balancing Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:29 ` [ 27/40] kswapd: assign new_order and new_classzone_idx after wakeup in sleeping Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:29 ` [ 28/40] mm: compaction: introduce sync-light migration for use by compaction Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:29 ` [ 29/40] mm: vmscan: when reclaiming for compaction, ensure there are sufficient free pages available Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:29 ` [ 30/40] mm: vmscan: do not OOM if aborting reclaim to start compaction Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:29 ` [ 31/40] mm: vmscan: check if reclaim should really abort even if compaction_ready() is true for one zone Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:29 ` [ 32/40] vmscan: promote shared file mapped pages Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:29 ` [ 33/40] vmscan: activate executable pages after first usage Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:29 ` [ 34/40] mm/vmscan.c: consider swap space when deciding whether to continue reclaim Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:29 ` [ 35/40] mm: test PageSwapBacked in lumpy reclaim Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:29 ` [ 36/40] mm: vmscan: convert global reclaim to per-memcg LRU lists Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 0:25 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-07-30 15:29 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2012-07-26 21:29 ` [ 37/40] cpusets: avoid looping when storing to mems_allowed if one node remains set Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:29 ` [ 38/40] cpusets: stall when updating mems_allowed for mempolicy or disjoint nodemask Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:29 ` [ 39/40] cpuset: mm: reduce large amounts of memory barrier related damage v3 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-27 15:08 ` Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2012-07-27 15:23 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-27 19:01 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-28 5:02 ` Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2012-07-28 10:26 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-30 15:39 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 15:37 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 15:38 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:29 ` [ 40/40] mm/hugetlb: fix warning in alloc_huge_page/dequeue_huge_page_vma Greg Kroah-Hartman
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