From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@timpanogas.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: "Juan J. Quintela" <quintela@fi.udc.es>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: PATCH: rewrite of invalidate_inode_pages
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 16:05:39 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <391B2EB3.A79DFA63@timpanogas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005111445370.819-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
It should be expanded to support 64K pages. Check
/usr/src/linux/include/asm-ia64/page.h. IA64 supports page sizes up to
64K.
:-)
Jeff
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On 11 May 2000, Juan J. Quintela wrote:
> > - we change one page_cache_release to put_page in truncate_inode_pages
> > (people find lost when they see a get_page without the correspondent
> > put_page, and put_page and page_cache_release are synonimops)
>
> put_page() is _not_ synonymous with page_cache_release()!
>
> Imagine a time in the not too distant future when the page cache
> granularity is 8kB or 16kB due to better IO performance (possibly
> controlled by a config option), and page_cache_release() will do an
> "order=1" or "order=2" page free..
>
> Linus
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-05-11 22:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-05-11 21:40 Juan J. Quintela
2000-05-11 21:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-05-11 21:56 ` Juan J. Quintela
2000-05-11 22:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-05-12 1:01 ` Juan J. Quintela
2000-05-12 2:02 ` PATCH: new page_cache_get() (try 2) Juan J. Quintela
2000-05-11 22:22 ` PATCH: rewrite of invalidate_inode_pages Ingo Molnar
2000-05-11 22:34 ` Trond Myklebust
2000-05-11 22:54 ` Juan J. Quintela
2000-05-11 23:17 ` Trond Myklebust
2000-05-11 23:28 ` Juan J. Quintela
2000-05-11 23:55 ` Trond Myklebust
2000-05-12 11:28 ` John Cavan
2000-05-12 11:37 ` Juan J. Quintela
2000-05-12 12:51 ` Trond Myklebust
2000-05-12 13:21 ` Arjan van de Ven
2000-05-12 13:35 ` Trond Myklebust
2000-05-12 17:57 ` Juan J. Quintela
2000-05-12 13:30 ` Juan J. Quintela
2000-05-11 22:05 ` Jeff V. Merkey [this message]
2000-05-11 22:28 ` Trond Myklebust
2000-05-11 22:43 ` Juan J. Quintela
2000-05-11 22:56 ` Trond Myklebust
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