Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: page_alloc: do not give all non-blocking requests reserve access

From: Johannes Weiner

Date: Wed Oct 28 2026 - 13:34:51 EST


On Wed, Oct 28, 2026 at 11:19:08AM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2026 at 03:00:02PM +0000, Salvatore Dipietro wrote:
> >
> > Hi Johannes,
> >
> > Vlastimil asked that v6 of my page_alloc patch [1] not go to mainline
> > before these two patches land, so Andrew parked v6 at the tail of
> > mm-unstable and dropped its Cc: stable until then.
> >
> > Are you still planning to work on 1/2 and 2/2, and if so, do you have
> > a rough ETA? Or would you rather post them as a separate series as
> > they are? If anything is needed on my side to move them forward, I'm
> > happy to help.
> >
> > For what it's worth, I ran both stacked under v6 on v7.3-rc1 and saw
> > no performance difference on my benchmark with or without them.
> >
> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20261001082152.2879289-1-dipiets@xxxxxxxxx/
>
> I'll work on this today, will have patches before EOD. Sorry for
> dropping this.

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