From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: ebiederm+eric@ccr.net, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Q: PAGE_CACHE_SIZE?
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 17:29:23 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E10mK50-0001eC-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19990518170401.A3966@fred.muc.de> from "Andi Kleen" at May 18, 99 05:04:01 pm
> > Who's idea was it start the work to make the granularity of the page
> > cache larger?
>
> I guess the main motivation comes from the ARM port, where some versions
> have PAGE_SIZE=32k.
For large amounts of memory on fast boxes you want a higher page size. Some
vendors even pick page size based on memory size at boot up.
Alan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-05-25 15:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-05-18 14:03 Eric W. Biederman
1999-05-18 15:04 ` Andi Kleen
1999-05-19 23:29 ` Chris Wedgwood
1999-05-20 17:12 ` Andrea Arcangeli
1999-05-25 16:29 ` Alan Cox [this message]
1999-05-25 20:16 ` Rik van Riel
1999-05-25 22:17 ` Matti Aarnio
1999-05-27 22:06 ` Alan Cox
1999-05-28 20:46 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-05-28 21:33 ` Rik van Riel
1999-05-29 1:59 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-05-30 23:12 ` Andrea Arcangeli
1999-06-01 0:01 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-06-01 14:23 ` Andrea Arcangeli
1999-05-29 15:07 ` Ralf Baechle
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