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    SubjectRe: [RFC] [PATCH] cache pollution aware __copy_from_user_ll()
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    On Friday 02 September 2005 04:08, Andrew Morton wrote:

    > I suppose I'll queue it up in -mm for a while, although I'm a bit dubious
    > about the whole idea... We'll gain some and we'll lose some - how do we
    > know it's a net gain?

    I suspect it'll gain more than it loses. The only case where it might
    not gain is immediately someone reading the data from the page cache again
    after the write. But I suppose that's far less frequent than writing the data.

    -Andi
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