Re: [patch] sg: simplify page_count manipulations

[Nick Piggin]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 04:32:00PM +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > I suspect nobody tried to munmap pages beyond the first one.
> > 
> > Yes, let's use a compound page in there and I expect Doug will be able to
> > test it for us sometime.
> 
> That function did move page along in 2.6.15, but has got screwed up since:
> good reason, I think, to speed Nick's patch through to clean it all away.
> 

Sorry, I'm wrong then (about the conversation around the initial patch).

Definitely restore 2.6.15 behaviour for 2.6.16 if you are hesitant to
change it. Doug's call I guess.

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