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Message-Id: <1221238624.17910.32.camel@nimitz>
Date:	Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:57:04 -0700
From:	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Oren Laadan <orenl@...columbia.edu>
Cc:	arnd@...db.de, jeremy@...p.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC v4][PATCH 4/9] Memory management (dump)

On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 03:42 -0400, Oren Laadan wrote: 
> +	if (unlikely(ret < 0)) {
> +		nr = pgarr->nr_free - nr;
> +		while (nr--)
> +			page_cache_release(*(--pagep));
> +		return ret;
> +	}

Oren, please take a good, hard look through all these patches (i.e.
grep) and find all of the (un)likely calls and toss them out.  They're
unneeded.
> 
-- Dave

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