On Mon 22-08-16 15:05:17, Andrew Morton wrote:

On Mon, 22 Aug 2016 15:42:28 +0200 Michal Hocko [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Of course, if Linus/Andrew doesn't like to take those compaction
improvements this late then I will ask to merge the partial revert to
Linus tree as well and then there is not much to discuss.

This sounds like the prudent option.  Can we get 4.8 working
well-enough, backport that into 4.7.x and worry about the fancier stuff
for 4.9?

OK, fair enough.

I would really appreciate if the original reporters could retest with
this patch on top of the current Linus tree. The stable backport posted
earlier doesn't apply on the current master cleanly but the change is
essentially same. mmotm tree then can revert this patch before Vlastimil
series is applied because that code is touching the currently removed
code.
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