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Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 12:07:59 -0700
From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>, Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
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> Run that by me again?  So we're saying "if we just freed an
> object from this page then make this page be the *last* page
> which is eligible for new allocations"?  Under the assumption
> that other objects in that same page are about to be freed
> up as well?
> 
> Makes sense.  It would be nice to get this confirmed in 
> targetted testing ;)

Just doing my normal boring kernel compile suggest Manfred's 
last big rollup performs exactly the same as without it. Not
sure if that's any help or not ....

M.

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