On 08/28/2014, 08:34 PM, Mel Gorman wrote: > From: David Rientjes <rient...@google.com> > > commit b104a35d32025ca740539db2808aa3385d0f30eb upstream. > > The page allocator relies on __GFP_WAIT to determine if ALLOC_CPUSET > should be set in allocflags. ALLOC_CPUSET controls if a page allocation > should be restricted only to the set of allowed cpuset mems. > > Transparent hugepages clears __GFP_WAIT when defrag is disabled to prevent > the fault path from using memory compaction or direct reclaim. Thus, it > is unfairly able to allocate outside of its cpuset mems restriction as a > side-effect. > > This patch ensures that ALLOC_CPUSET is only cleared when the gfp mask is > truly GFP_ATOMIC by verifying it is also not a thp allocation.
Hi, the time has come to apply this series. Thanks a lot for doing that. It all applies cleanly except this one, as it is already in 2.6.27. So skipping makes it work nicely. -- js suse labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html