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    SubjectRe: [patch 4/19] stack space reduction (remove MAX_BUF_PER_PAGE)
    Linus Torvalds wrote:
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    > On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:
    > > Andrew Morton wrote:
    > > >
    > > > ..
    > > > + do {
    > > > + if (buffer_async_read(bh))
    > > > + submit_bh(READ, bh);
    > > > + } while ((bh = bh->b_this_page) != head);
    > >
    > > That's a bug.
    >
    > I'm just not going to apply this patch.

    Excellent idea.

    There were some patches floating around a while back (Ben and Hugh,
    I think) which gave x86 a 64k soft PAGE_CACHE_SIZE. They will hit
    this problem. But they know about it now, and the fix is there.

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