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Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 22:27:40 -0300 (BRT)
From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Move __GFP_IO check in shrink_icache_memory to prune_icache()
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On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

> 
> Linus,
> 
> With the prune_icache() modifications which were integrated in pre5 there
> is no more need to avoid non __GFP_IO allocations to go down to
> prune_icache().
> 
> The following patch moves the __GFP_IO check down to prune_icache(),
> allowing !__GFP_IO allocations to free clean unused inodes.

Forget about this. 

We may have to write quota information back to disk while freeing the
inode and then we are fucked. 

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