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From: Giuliano Pochini <pochini@shiny.it>
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Subject: Re: please revert bogus patch to vmscan.c
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>> But of course going from page flush to the mm flush is fine from my part
>> too. As Linus noted a few days ago during swapout we're going to block
>> and reschedule all the time, so the range flush is going to be a noop in
> 
> Only on architectures where the TLB (or equivalent) is
> small and only capable of holding entries for one address
> space at a time.
> 
> It's simply not true on eg PPC.

#ifdef ?


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