Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: page_alloc: do not give all non-blocking requests reserve access
From: Johannes Weiner
Date: Wed Oct 28 2026 - 11:21:16 EST
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.