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Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 23:59:52 -0300 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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Subject: Re: Removal of PG_marker scheme from 2.4.6-pre
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On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > > "me: undo page_launder() LRU changes, they have nasty side effects"
> > >
> > > Can you be more verbose about this ?
> >
> > I think this was fixed by the GFP_BUFFER vs. GFP_CAN_FS + GFP_CAN_IO
> > thing and Linus accidentally backed out the wrong code ;)
>
> You wish.
>
> Except it wasn't so.
>
> Follow the list, and read the emails that were cc'd to you.

I'll try to find them, but at the moment I'm on a slow
link (was at USENIX and am still a continent away from
where my email is) and I'm afraid I won't have too much
time for kernel stuff the next 3 weeks ;(

Rik
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