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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0904301034370.4028@qirst.com>
Date:	Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:42:07 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
cc:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>, thomas.pi@...or.dea,
	Yuriy Lalym <ylalym@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	ltt-dev@...ts.casi.polymtl.ca, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix dirty page accounting in
 redirty_page_for_writepage()

On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> Christoph's zero-based x86 percpu patches were incomplete and never
> worked reliably - Christoph unfortunately never addressed the
> bugs/crashes i reported. (and Mike Travis and me injected quite a
> bit of testing into it) There were two failed attempts to productize
> them and the patches just bitrotted for more than a year.

Sorry not my issue. Mike took over that work on the x86 arch.

I am fine with how things developed. The core patches fell off the
priority list after job change. Just get the things that are not right now
straightened out.


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