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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 10:59:52AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> That said, I do think that a much bigger conceptual change that
> actually does full traversal and be much more complicated might be the
> only "correct" solution.
> 
> So my patch is just a "improve heuristics" small fixlet rather than
> something optimal.

Yeah, I'd agree with both points. Unless somebody is planning to work on
the bigger change in the near future, your patch is a strict improvement
to the heuristic, and is worth applying.

-Peff