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remove completly bogus comment inside __alloc_pages() try_to_free_pages handling

From:  Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To:  akpm@osdl.org, Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject:  [PATCH] remove completly bogus comment inside __alloc_pages() try_to_free_pages handling
Date:  Sun, 3 Jul 2005 18:00:23 -0300
Archive-link:  Article, Thread

Remove completly bogus comment from did_some_progress != 0 handling (that
same comment is a few lines below on did_some_progress = 0 case, where it 
belongs).

--- linux-2.6.11/mm/page_alloc.c.orig	2005-07-03 11:55:53.000000000 -0300
+++ linux-2.6.11/mm/page_alloc.c	2005-07-03 11:56:24.000000000 -0300
@@ -786,12 +786,6 @@
 	cond_resched();
 
 	if (likely(did_some_progress)) {
-		/*
-		 * Go through the zonelist yet one more time, keep
-		 * very high watermark here, this is only to catch
-		 * a parallel oom killing, we must fail if we're still
-		 * under heavy pressure.
-		 */
 		for (i = 0; (z = zones[i]) != NULL; i++) {
 			if (!zone_watermark_ok(z, order, z->pages_min,
 					       classzone_idx, can_try_harder,
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