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Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 03:26:55 +0200
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
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Subject: Re: highmem deadlock fix [was Re: VM in 2.4.10(+tweaks) vs. 2.4.9-ac14/15(+stuff)]
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On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 08:51:42PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> 
> > well this approch is much less finegrined...
> 
> I'd consider that a feature. Undocumented subtle stuff
> tends to break within 6 months, sometimes even due to
> changes made by the same person who did the original
> subtle trick.

by the same argument we could drop the NOHIGHIO logic in first place.

Andrea