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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, npiggin@novell.com,
       Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: writeback-highmem
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Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote:
>
> This needed highmem fix from Rik is still missing too, so please apply
>  along the other 5 (it's orthogonal so you can apply this one in any
>  order you want).
> 
>  From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
>  Subject: [PATCH][1/2] adjust dirty threshold for lowmem-only mappings

I've held off on this one because the recent throttling fix should have
helped this problem.  Has anyone confirmed that this patch still actually
fixes something?  If so, what was the scenario?

Thanks.