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Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 11:00:06 +1100
From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
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To: Rohit Seth <rohit.seth@intel.com>
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Rohit Seth wrote:

> 
> Nick, sorry for not responding earlier.  
> 

That's OK.

> I agree that it is slight change in behavior from original.  I doubt
> though it will impact any one in any negative way (may be for some
> higher order allocations if at all). On a little positive side, less
> frequent calls to kswapd for some cases and clear up the code a little
> bit.
> 

I really don't want a change of behaviour going in with this,
especially not one which I would want to revert anyway. But
don't get hung up with it - when you post your latest patch
I will make a patch for the changes I would like to see for it
and synch things up.

> But I really don't want to get stuck here. The pcp traversal and
> flushing is where I want to go next.  
> 

Sure, hope it goes well!

Nick

-- 
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.

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