Re: Removal of PG_marker scheme from 2.4.6-pre

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Sat, 30 Jun 2001 21:35:06 -0700 (PDT)


On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
> In pre7:
>
> "me: undo page_launder() LRU changes, they have nasty side effects"
>
> Can you be more verbose about this ?

See the thread about 2.4.5-ac13+ (and my pre3+) basically becoming
unusable for longish times (temporarily locking up) on linux-kernel. It
was due to these changes.

Linus

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