Patch "ice: drop page splitting and recycling" has been added to the 6.18-stable tree
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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:56:35 +0200
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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ice: drop page splitting and recycling
to the 6.18-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
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The filename of the patch is:
ice-drop-page-splitting-and-recycling.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.18 subdirectory.If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.
Please drop, along with the predecing patches ("drop legacy Rx" and all that). This will cause huge performance regression on LTSes. "ice: fix broken Rx on VFs" is applicable only when the commit "ice:
convert to Page Pool" is present, otherwise everything works. Another option would be to take PP conversion to LTSes, but I don't think it belongs to stable.
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From: Michal Kubiak <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2025 11:22:52 +0200
Subject: ice: drop page splitting and recycling
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From: Michal Kubiak <[email protected]>
commit
3a4f419f750946181e3d6a339a1ef1942c5b5685upstream.As part of the transition toward Page Pool integration, remove the legacy page splitting and recycling logic from the ice driver. This mirrors the approach taken in commit
920d86f3c552("iavf: drop page splitting and recycling").
Thanks,
Olek
From: Alexander Lobakin <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:25:58 +0200
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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:56:35 +0200Quoted 8 lines
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ice: drop page splitting and recycling
to the 6.18-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summaryQuoted 6 lines
The filename of the patch is:
ice-drop-page-splitting-and-recycling.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.18 subdirectory.If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.
Quoted 6 lines
Please drop, along with the predecing patches ("drop legacy Rx" and all that). This will cause huge performance regression on LTSes. "ice: fix broken Rx on VFs" is applicable only when the commit "ice:
convert to Page Pool" is present, otherwise everything works. Another option would be to take PP conversion to LTSes, but I don't think it belongs to stable.
Sorry, pls ignore, I didn't notice you took the PP conversion as well. I did read the adjacent thread a couple minutes ago, if it works, let it be then, shouldn't harm.
Thanks,
Olek