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

[Andrew Morton]

On Fri, 18 Sep 2026 08:40:05 +0200 "Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" <vbabka@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.
> 

I just demoted it into mm-hotfixes-unstable.

So a clean v6 would be best now, please.