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Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 18:54:17 +0200 (CEST)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: [patch] swap-speedup-2.4.3-A2
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On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> The above is NOT how the page cache works. Or if some part of the page
> cache works that way, then it is a BUG. You must NEVER allow multiple
> outstanding reads from the same location - that implies that you're
> doing something wrong, and the system is doing too much IO.

you are right, the pagecache does it correctly, i've just re-checked all
places.

	Ingo

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