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Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 19:31:35 -0500
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Nick Piggin wrote:

> 
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 04:22:07PM -0500, Ray Bryant wrote:
>>
>>> On a separate issue, the response to my proposal for a mempolicy to 
>>> control
>>> allocation of page cache pages has been <ahem> underwhelming.
>>> (See: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&m=109416852113561&w=2
>>> and  http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&m=109416852416997&w=2 )
>>> I wonder if this is because I just posted it to linux-mm or its not 
>>> fleshed out enough yet to be interesting?
>>>
>>
>> It was very noncontroversial. Since it's apparently useful to someone
>> and generally low-impact it should probably be merged.
>>
>>
> 
> Yeah, I couldn't see any reason to not go ahead with it, which is why I
> didn't say anything :)
> 
> 

Cool.  I'll go ahead and finish it and make it something useful then.

-- 
Best Regards,
Ray
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