Re: [PATCH 4/6] mm/page_alloc: don't undo another isolation in alloc_contig_range

From: David Hildenbrand (Arm)

Date: Tue Oct 27 2026 - 14:58:33 EST


On 10/27/26 19:53, Zi Yan wrote:
> On 27 Oct 2026, at 10:13, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
>
>> On 10/27/26 15:06, Gregory Price (Meta) wrote:
>>>
>>> Yeah, this is going to happen more.
>>>
>>> I've been sitting in these patches for over a month while they soaked on
>>> hardware getting performance tests.
>>
>> I mean this fix here is really just independent and shouldn't wait that long :)
>>
>>>
>>> Maybe worth a private tree we can rebase on regularly for these kinds of
>>> un-vetted/posted fixes to see what's coming?
>>
>> Maybe. But if it's just us core people we can just talk on IRC etc (like Zi did
>> two days ago when he was about to post something that I already had on my queue).
>
> One idea is that maybe Sashiko is able to identify patches fixing
> the same issue and does some grouping or tagging on the website.
> Or send an email about it with a lore link.

I think that's too late. For us core devs we just need to sync on "has someone
already a fix for that or is it worth cleaning the AI shite up and sending it out".

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Cheers,

David