Re: buffer/swapping in pre-patch-2.0.31-2 + the 17th July patch

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> * run buffer wait queue only if recover_reusable_buffer_heads()
> is called in brw_page() due get_more_buffer_heads()

> * Set PAGE_AGE_VALUE to PAGE_INITIAL_AGE+PAGE_ADVANCE in
> linux/include/linux/pagemap.h ... should avoid over-aged
> cache pages

>Are there any differences in bonnie? Is the debugging printk in
>try_to_free_page() triggered?

Seems fine (to me at least), I'm not getting any debug printks from
try_to_free_page anymore (your latest patch + the one liner change on
wakeup_on_io). Bonnie numbers are within negligibly different between
the two patch sets.

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