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Subject: Re: [PATCH] shmem missing cache flush
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 01:16, David S. Miller wrote:
>    I similarly wish that were so.  Any cleanups in this area are most
>    welcome.  Alas m68k and sparc still use flush_page_to_ram().
> 
> I'd consider it more than rude to break this 5 days before
> feature freeze. :-)
> 
> Put this at the top of the list of 2.7.x todo and let's not
> forget it this time.

I disagree here. Its a measurable performance item, and its actually
going to break less code than for example the last minute scsi and bio
changes have done

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