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Re: page->offset

To: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@sonera.fi>
Subject: Re: page->offset
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 21:34:36 +0200 (CEST)
Cc: pnilesh@in.ibm.com, linux-mm@kvack.org
In-Reply-To: <20000413090746.R13396@mea.tmt.tele.fi>
Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org

On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Matti Aarnio wrote:

>	Scaled with PAGE SIZE.

PAGE_CACHE_SIZE

>	Reason for going to this has been (among others) to get
>	coherency into the page cache so that there won't be
>	differently aligned copies of same byte range in the memory.

Very right. Other strong reason was to avoid long long with LFS.

Andrea

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- Re: page->offset
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