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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] mempool: do not consume memory reserves from
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On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 14:26:19 +0200 Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> wrote:

> 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@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?
> 

I added the cc:stable.

Do we need to bust a gut to rush it into 4.7?  It sounds safer to let
it bake for a while, fix it in 4.7.1?