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From: Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 10:21:45AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
>> I agree with your general sentiment that this stuff is very 
>> nonintuitive.
>
>My criterion for nonintuitive is probably different because I would 
>call this _completely_unusable_. Sorry for being so loud about this but 
>the more I look into this area the more WTF code I see. This has seen 
>close to zero review and seems to be building up more single usecase 
>code on top of previous. We need to change this, seriously!

No argument here. I'm happy to help however I can.

-- 
Reza Arbab