[3.13.y.z extended stable] Patch "xfs: block allocation work needs to be kswapd aware" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

On Wed, 2014-07-16 at 06:44 +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Kamal Mostafa wrote:
> > This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
> > 
> >     xfs: block allocation work needs to be kswapd aware
> > 
> > to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y.z extended stable tree 
> > which can be found at:
> > 
> >  http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue
> > 
> > This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.5.
> > 
> > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
> > reply to this email.
> > 
> 
> This patch should not be added to this tree.


Okay, dropped from the 3.13-stable queue.  Thanks, Tetsuo and Dave!

 -Kamal


> ------- Forwarded Message
> From: Dave Chinner <david at fromorbit.com>
> To: gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
> Cc: dchinner at redhat.com, hch at lst.de, penguin-kernel at I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp,stable at vger.kernel.org, stable-commits at vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: Patch "xfs: block allocation work needs to be kswapd aware" hasbeen added to the 3.14-stable tree
> Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 11:52:21 +1000
> 
> On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 04:54:41PM -0700, gregkh at linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> > 
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> > 
> >     xfs: block allocation work needs to be kswapd aware
> > 
> > to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
> >     http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> 
> Please drop it - this patch is due to be reverted because of
> severe performance regressions in low memory situations.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dave.