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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 20:22:48 +0100 (CET)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: Yet another bogus piece of do_try_to_free_pages()
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To: Zlatko Calusic <zlatko@iskon.hr>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>, Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org
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On 17 Jan 2001, Zlatko Calusic wrote:

> Oh, believe me I tested that patch very thoroughly with lots of
> utilities, and it worked very very well. I don't remember that it
> fiddled anywhere with the PG_MEMALLOC flag.

yep, same result here, Marcelo's patch is plain *wonderful*. Combined with
the block-IO changes, -pre8 is really behaving spectacularly in under high
VM or pagecache load.

	Ingo

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