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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
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On Tue 22-08-17 14:55:39, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
[...]
> And you may want to touch the watchdog at the end too in case
> page_count is small then.

Why would that be needed? If the number of pages is slow then we will
release the IRQ lock early and won't need to care about watchdog at all.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs