Re: regression/bisected commit 773688a6cb24b0b3c2ba40354d883348a2befa38 make my system completely unusable under high load

From: Vlastimil Babka
Date: Mon Feb 19 2024 - 05:09:35 EST


On 2/19/24 10:52, Marco Elver wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 at 10:48, Mikhail Gavrilov
> <mikhail.v.gavrilov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 3, 2024 at 1:14 AM Mikhail Gavrilov
>> <mikhail.v.gavrilov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > You are right.
>> > Thanks for digging into it!
>> >
>>
>> This [2] revert is still not merged at least I checked on 4f5e5092fdbf.
>> Is there any plan to merge it or find another approach?
>>
>> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240118110216.2539519-2-elver@xxxxxxxxxx/
>
> I think it's already in -mm and -next. It just takes time, which is a
> good thing, after all we want to let -next testing confirm nothing is
> wrong with it.
>
> Andrew, is this planned for the next merge window or as a "hot fix"
> for the current rc? Given it has the right "Fixes" tags it will make
> it to stable kernels eventually, but I also think that the previous
> "slow" version is almost unusable on big systems, so it may be
> worthwhile considering the current rc.

Yeah it would be best to fix in 6.8 to prevent regressions.

> Thanks,
> -- Marco