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Re: Yet another bogus piece of do_try_to_free_pages()

To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Subject: Re: Yet another bogus piece of do_try_to_free_pages()
From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 04:07:29 -0200 (BRST)
cc: Zlatko Calusic <zlatko@iskon.hr>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org
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On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:

> On 11 Jan 2001, Zlatko Calusic wrote:
> 
> > I have tested it for you and results are great. On some tests I got
> > 20% to 30% better results which is amazing. I'll do some more tests
> > but I would vote for this to get in immediately. Yes, it's *so* good.
> 
> Don't be so rash.
> 
> The patch hasn't been tested very thoroughly, otherwise
> people would have noticed the problem that PG_MEMALLOC
> isn't set around the page freeing code, possibly leading
> to deadlocks, triple faults and other nasties.

Look at 2.4.1pre8.


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