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    SubjectRe: please revert bogus patch to vmscan.c
    On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 03:22:28PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
    > Does it make the accessed bit less reliable? Sure it does. But basically,
    > either the page is accessed SO much that it stays in the TLB all the time
    > (which is basically not really possible if you page heavily, I suspect),
    > or it will age out of the TLB on its own at which point we get the
    > accessed bit back.

    Think of CPUs with tagged tlbs and lots of entries. Or even a system that
    only runs 1 threaded app. Easily triggerable. If people want to optimise
    it, great. But go for correctness first, please...

    -ben
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