Re: QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER: not working in 2.6.24 ?

From: Mark Lord
Date: Thu Dec 13 2007 - 19:47:55 EST


Mark Lord wrote:
Andrew Morton wrote:
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:30:00 -0500
Mark Lord <liml@xxxxxx> wrote:

Here's the commit that causes the regression:

...

--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -760,7 +760,8 @@ static int rmqueue_bulk(struct zone *zone, unsigned int order,
struct page *page = __rmqueue(zone, order, migratetype);
if (unlikely(page == NULL))
break;
- list_add_tail(&page->lru, list);
+ list_add(&page->lru, list);

well that looks fishy.
..

Yeah. I missed that, and instead just posted a patch
to search the list in reverse order, which seems to work for me.

I'll try just reversing that line above here now.. gimme 5 minutes or so.
..

Yep, that works too. Alternative "improved" patch now posted.
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