From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from caffeine.ix.net.nz (caffeine.ix.net.nz [203.97.118.28]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA30229 for ; Wed, 19 May 1999 19:29:20 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 11:29:12 +1200 From: Chris Wedgwood Subject: Re: Q: PAGE_CACHE_SIZE? Message-ID: <19990520112912.A5473@caffeine.ix.net.nz> References: <19990518170401.A3966@fred.muc.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <19990518170401.A3966@fred.muc.de>; from Andi Kleen on Tue, May 18, 1999 at 05:04:01PM +0200 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Andi Kleen Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: > I guess the main motivation comes from the ARM port, where some > versions have PAGE_SIZE=32k. I've often wondered if it wouldn't be a good idea to do this on Intel boxes sometimes, especially as many machines routinely have 512MB of ram, so we could probably get away with merge 4 pages into one and having pseudo-16k pages. Presumably this might/will break existing stuff though... I think many of these could be worked around though. -Chris -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm my@address' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/