Re: [PATCH v5] mm/page_alloc: avoid direct compaction for costly __GFP_NORETRY allocations

"Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-fsdevel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-xfs,org.kernel.vger.stable,org.kvack.linux-mm
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On 9/18/26 08:32, Salvatore Dipietro wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2026 at 04:17:00PM +0000, Johannes Weiner wrote:
>> It would be possible to remove the costly_order gate here and just
>> bail on __GFP_NORETRY. But no strong feelings.
> 
> Will do, I'll drop the costly_order gate and bail on __GFP_NORETRY.
> 
> Andrew, since you dropped v5 and restored v4 in mm-unstable, I'll send a
> v6 (v4 plus the above change) unless you'd rather have an incremental
> patch on top of v4. Let me know if anything else is needed on my side.

v4 is in mm-hotfixes-stable now, so an incremental fix will be easier now I
think.

> Thanks,
> Salvatore
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