Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Avoid the use of congestion_wait under zonepressure

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:50:54PM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> 2. TTY using high order allocations more frequently
> 	fix title: ttyfix
> 	fixed in mainline? yes, in 2.6.34-rc2
> 	affects: 2.6.31 to 2.6.34-rc1
> 
> 	2.6.31 made pty's use the same buffering logic as tty.	Unfortunately,
> 	it was also allowed to make high-order GFP_ATOMIC allocations. This
> 	triggers some high-order reclaim and introduces some stalls. It's
> 	fixed in 2.6.34-rc2 but needs back-porting.

It will go to the other stable kernels for their next round of releases
now that it is in Linus's tree.

> Next Steps
> ==========
> 
> Jens, any problems with me backporting the async/sync fixes from 2.6.31 to
> 2.6.30.x (assuming that is still maintained, Greg?)?

No, .30 is no longer being maintained.

thanks,

greg k-h
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