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Re: Q: PAGE_CACHE_SIZE?

To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Subject: Re: Q: PAGE_CACHE_SIZE?
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 19:12:14 +0200 (CEST)
cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm+eric@ccr.net>, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org
In-Reply-To: <19990518170401.A3966@fred.muc.de>
Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org

On Tue, 18 May 1999, Andi Kleen wrote:

>On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 04:03:57PM +0200, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> Who's idea was it start the work to make the granularity of the page
>> cache larger?
>
>I guess the main motivation comes from the ARM port, where some versions
>have PAGE_SIZE=32k.

Since they have a too much large PAGE_SIZE, they shouldn't be interested
in enalrging the page-cache-size.

Andrea Arcangeli

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