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Linus Torvalds caf491916b Revert "revert "Revert "mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD""" and associated damage
This reverts commits a50915394f and
d7c3b937bd.

This is a revert of a revert of a revert.  In addition, it reverts the
even older i915 change to stop using the __GFP_NO_KSWAPD flag due to the
original commits in linux-next.

It turns out that the original patch really was bogus, and that the
original revert was the correct thing to do after all.  We thought we
had fixed the problem, and then reverted the revert, but the problem
really is fundamental: waking up kswapd simply isn't the right thing to
do, and direct reclaim sometimes simply _is_ the right thing to do.

When certain allocations fail, we simply should try some direct reclaim,
and if that fails, fail the allocation.  That's the right thing to do
for THP allocations, which can easily fail, and the GPU allocations want
to do that too.

So starting kswapd is sometimes simply wrong, and removing the flag that
said "don't start kswapd" was a mistake.  Let's hope we never revisit
this mistake again - and certainly not this many times ;)

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-10 11:03:05 -08:00
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acpi Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux 2012-10-08 07:14:06 +09:00
asm-generic UAPI: Remove empty non-UAPI Kbuild files 2012-10-17 12:31:15 +01:00
clocksource
crypto Merge branch 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux 2012-10-14 13:39:34 -07:00
drm drm/radeon: add new SI pci id 2012-11-21 18:37:38 -05:00
keys KEYS: Asymmetric key pluggable data parsers 2012-10-08 13:50:13 +10:30
linux Revert "revert "Revert "mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD""" and associated damage 2012-12-10 11:03:05 -08:00
math-emu
media [media] adv7604: Replace prim_mode by mode 2012-11-21 17:43:49 -02:00
memory
misc
net tcp: bug fix Fast Open client retransmission 2012-12-07 14:39:28 -05:00
pcmcia
ras
rdma infiniband: pass rdma_cm module to netlink_dump_start 2012-10-07 00:30:56 -04:00
rxrpc
scsi [SCSI] sd: Implement support for WRITE SAME 2012-11-13 22:45:42 -08:00
sound ALSA: Add a reference counter to card instance 2012-10-30 11:07:10 +01:00
target target: Add target_submit_cmd_map_sgls for SGL fabric memory passthrough 2012-10-02 14:16:08 -07:00
trace Revert "revert "Revert "mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD""" and associated damage 2012-12-10 11:03:05 -08:00
uapi Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-12-01 13:07:48 -08:00
video fbdev updates for 3.7 2012-10-12 10:21:02 +09:00
xen Bug-fixes: 2012-11-10 06:56:21 +01:00
Kbuild UAPI: Remove empty non-UAPI Kbuild files 2012-10-17 12:31:15 +01:00