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On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 19:46:09 -0700 (PDT)
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:

> Could we please remove the fake revert from the git tree immediately?

Let's not do anything immediately, OK?  We're thrashing around here.

> http://www.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=fc818301a8a39fedd7f0a71f878f29130c72193d

Not fake - it's a partial reversion of 
2b2d5493e10051694ae3a57ea6a153e3cb4d4488

> 2.6.17 code has also the dropping of the lock.

It doesn't.

> This was no reversion. 
> Maybe there is a problem but then I'd like to hear about it:

It's all in this thread - see Chandra's testing results.