Re: QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER: not working in 2.6.24 ?

[Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>]

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