Re: please revert bogus patch to vmscan.c

From: Benjamin LaHaise (bcrl@redhat.com)
Date: Mon Oct 29 2001 - 18:33:16 EST


On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 03:25:36PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> And avoiding the extra TLB flush (for _every_ page scanned) is noticeable
> according to Andrea.

Sure. But do it correctly and perform a tlb flush higher up in the page
table walking code. Just deleting it entirely is bogus. Introducing
hard to track down bugs is just stupid.

                -ben
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