Re: 2.4.0-test8-pre1 is quite bad / how about integrating Rik's VMnow?

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > 
> > I'd like to know what it was. Last I heard, it was still the
> > case of "pages just off the freelist had some bits set that they
> > shouldn't have". That makes me nervous.
> 
> Nope, that was what you /thought/ it was.

Rik.

You're apparently completely ignoring the fact that the page "already on
the LRU queue" was just allocated from __alloc_pages() in the backtrace
you had.

It's not me "thinking" anything. That was what your backtrace said. And
apparently it's still not clear _why_. So why are you arguing?

                Linus

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