linux-kernel - [RFC] Remove temp

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Date:	Tue, 17 Oct 2006 10:34:27 -0700
From:	Martin Bligh <mbligh@...gle.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Memory Management <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
Subject: [RFC] Remove temp_priority

This is not tested yet. What do you think?

This patch removes temp_priority, as it is racy. We're setting
prev_priority from it, and yet temp_priority could have been
set back to DEF_PRIORITY by another reclaimer.

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