From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <391B2EB3.A79DFA63@timpanogas.com> Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 16:05:39 -0600 From: "Jeff V. Merkey" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: PATCH: rewrite of invalidate_inode_pages References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "Juan J. Quintela" , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu List-ID: 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 > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/