On Thursday 25 of August 2016, Michal Hocko wrote:

On Tue 23-08-16 09:43:39, Michal Hocko wrote:

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

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

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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.

Any luck with the testing of this patch?

Here my "rm -rf && cp -al" 10x in parallel test finished without OOM, so

Tested-by: Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz <redacted>

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