Re: Q: PAGE_CACHE_SIZE?

[Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>]

> > 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.

For large amounts of memory on fast boxes you want a higher page size. Some
vendors even pick page size based on memory size at boot up. 

Alan


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