Re: [PATCH 00/27] Move LRU page reclaim from zones to nodes v7

[Michal Hocko]

On Thu 23-06-16 11:26:48, Mel Gorman wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 03:15:39PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > The bulk of the updates are in response to review from Vlastimil Babka
> > and received a lot more testing than v6.
> > 
> 
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> Please drop these patches again from mmotm.
> 
> There has been a number of odd conflicts resulting in at least one major
> bug where a node-counter is used on a zone that will result in random
> behaviour. Some of the additional feedback is non-trivial and all of it
> will need to be resolved against the OOM detection rework and the huge
> tmpfs implementation.

FWIW I haven't spotted any obvious misbehaving wrt. the OOM detection
rework. You have kept the per-zone counters which are used for the retry
logic so I think we should be safe. I am still reading through the
series though.

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs