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Re: Removal of PG_marker scheme from 2.4.6-pre

To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
Subject: Re: Removal of PG_marker scheme from 2.4.6-pre
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 21:35:06 -0700 (PDT)
cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@kvack.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0106301628570.3394-100000@freak.distro.conectiva>
Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org

On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
> In pre7:
>
> "me: undo page_launder() LRU changes, they have nasty side effects"
>
> Can you be more verbose about this ?

See the thread about 2.4.5-ac13+ (and my pre3+) basically becoming
unusable for longish times (temporarily locking up) on linux-kernel. It
was due to these changes.

		Linus

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