Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: page_alloc: do not give all non-blocking requests reserve access
From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Oct 29 2026 - 08:17:43 EST
On Wed, Oct 28, 2026 at 10:55:17PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > It would be really important to get some fix for this into 7.3.
> > We can still perfect it later.
>
> What is "this"? You're referring to the performance regression which
> Salvatore's "mm/page_alloc: avoid direct reclaim and compaction for
> costly __GFP_NORETRY allocations" addresses?
As in I don't really care how the xfs/iomap performance issue gets fixed,
I just want it fixed yesterday.