From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from the-village.bc.nu (lightning.swansea.uk.linux.org [194.168.151.1]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA02725 for ; Tue, 25 May 1999 11:39:45 -0400 Subject: Re: Q: PAGE_CACHE_SIZE? Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 17:29:23 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: <19990518170401.A3966@fred.muc.de> from "Andi Kleen" at May 18, 99 05:04:01 pm Content-Type: text Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Andi Kleen Cc: ebiederm+eric@ccr.net, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: > > 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 -- 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/