Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 18:20:28 +0100
From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
       Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>, hannal@us.ibm.com,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Linux FSdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fastwalk: reduce cacheline bouncing of d_count (Changelog@1.1024.1.11)
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On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 07:06:28PM +0200, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> every change (if it's not a bugfix, and even those) bear
> a risk, what I like about the fastwalk patch is not the

exactly.  2.4 is not the place for cleanups that make the code easier
to read because those cleanups can introduce new bugs.

-- 
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Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?" -- Robert Fisk
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