On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Ed Tomlinson wrote:

Think you are right Jonathan.  This adding this back is _not_ going to
make a difference.  With the changes Rik made for 2.4.5, these caches
are agressivily shrunk when there is free shortage...

Suppose you have 80MB of free memory, 120MB in inode/dentry
cache and no swap.  A 100MB allocation will _fail_ with this
code removed from vm_enough_memory(), even though it's easy
to free the inode and dentry caches...

Rik
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