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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 5/5] ONLY-APPLY-IF-STILL-FAILING Revert 373c0a7e, 8aa7e847: Fix congestion_wait() sync/async vs read/write confusion
    On Thu, Oct 22 2009, Mel Gorman wrote:
    > Testing by Frans Pop indicates that in the 2.6.30..2.6.31 window at
    > least that the commits 373c0a7e 8aa7e847 dramatically increased the
    > number of GFP_ATOMIC failures that were occuring within a wireless
    > driver. It was never isolated which of the changes was the exact problem
    > and it's possible it has been fixed since. If problems are still
    > occuring with GFP_ATOMIC in 2.6.31-rc5, then this patch should be
    > applied to determine if the congestion_wait() callers are still broken.

    I still think this is a complete red herring.

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    Jens Axboe



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