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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 14:11:02 -0700
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] fewer unlikely tests
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On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 10:11:44PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> Occasionally I worry about all those BUG_ON tests we keep adding into
> page_alloc.c.  This patch does one preliminary test of all the flags
> before trying individually.  Maybe you consider this in bad taste,
> or maybe you think it's worthwhile: as you wish.

Reasonable and straightforward IMHO.


Bill