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From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: ifdef Quicklists in /proc/meminfo
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On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> x86 *does* use quicklists, at least with PAE.

Are you harking back to the good old days of 2.6.24?
Or looking ahead to a bright new future?

There was a defect, in the TLB flushing sequence IIRC,
which got them kicked out in a hurry.  They might return
- but I think everybody would prefer to have a better way
of applying the existing allocators than this extra pool.

Hugh