Bug#941611: linux-image-5.2.0-2-amd64: Kernel 5.2 has terrible performance under load

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

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Hi James,

On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 12:04:47PM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> Package: src:linux
> Version: 5.2.9-2
> Severity: important
> Tags: upstream
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Linux Kernel 5.2 is completely unusable on most of my systems.  The problem
> seems to be something to do with memory compaction causing intervals where
> the system becomes unresponsive.
> 
> This is definitely an upstream issue (my laptop running the upstream
> kernel is displaying the problem as well) so this bug is really just a
> warning not to deploy the 5.2 kernel until a fix is found.

If so, could you point where it was reported upstream so we can set
accorrdingly where it has been forwarded to?

Regards,
Salvatore