[dm-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/2] mempool: do not consume memory reserves from the reclaim path

[Vlastimil Babka]

On 07/22/2016 08:37 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 21-07-16 16:53:09, Michal Hocko wrote:
>> From d64815758c212643cc1750774e2751721685059a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko at suse.com>
>> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 16:40:59 +0200
>> Subject: [PATCH] Revert "mm, mempool: only set __GFP_NOMEMALLOC if there are
>>  free elements"
>>
>> This reverts commit f9054c70d28bc214b2857cf8db8269f4f45a5e23.
>
> I've noticed that Andrew has already picked this one up. Is anybody
> against marking it for stable?

It would be strange to have different behavior with known regression in 
4.6 and 4.7 stables. Actually, there's still time for 4.7 proper?

Vlastimil