From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ig0-f170.google.com (mail-ig0-f170.google.com [209.85.213.170]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74D35830AE for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2016 14:54:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-ig0-f170.google.com with SMTP id ig19so72011027igb.0 for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2016 11:54:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-ig0-x241.google.com (mail-ig0-x241.google.com. [2607:f8b0:4001:c05::241]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ga4si5992435igd.34.2016.03.20.11.54.56 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 20 Mar 2016 11:54:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-ig0-x241.google.com with SMTP id nt3so8186244igb.0 for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2016 11:54:56 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1458499278-1516-2-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> References: <1458499278-1516-1-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> <1458499278-1516-2-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2016 11:54:56 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/71] arc: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros From: Linus Torvalds Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a1134b8202a3f78052e7f84e4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Cc: Christoph Lameter , Al Viro , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , linux-fsdevel , Matthew Wilcox , Vineet Gupta , linux-mm --001a1134b8202a3f78052e7f84e4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 I'm OK with this, but let's not do this as a hundred small patches, OK? It doesn't help legibility or testing, so let's just do it in one big go. Linus On Mar 20, 2016 11:41 AM, "Kirill A. Shutemov" < kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> wrote: > > PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} macros were introduced *long* time ago > with promise that one day it will be possible to implement page cache with > bigger chunks than PAGE_SIZE. > > This promise never materialized. And unlikely will. --001a1134b8202a3f78052e7f84e4 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I'm OK with this, but let's not do this as a hundred= small patches, OK?

It doesn't help legibility or testing, so let's just= do it in one big go.

=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 Linus

On Mar 20, 2016 11:41 AM, "Kirill A. Shutemov" <= ;kirill.shutemov@linux.i= ntel.com> wrote:
>
> PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} macros were introduced *long* time = ago
> with promise that one day it will be possible to implement page cache = with
> bigger chunks than PAGE_SIZE.
>
> This promise never materialized. And unlikely will.

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