From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm+eric@ccr.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Q: PAGE_CACHE_SIZE?
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 19:12:14 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9905201904370.3038-100000@laser.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19990518170401.A3966@fred.muc.de>
On Tue, 18 May 1999, Andi Kleen wrote:
>On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 04:03:57PM +0200, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> 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.
Since they have a too much large PAGE_SIZE, they shouldn't be interested
in enalrging the page-cache-size.
Andrea Arcangeli
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-05-20 17:25 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 [this message]
1999-05-25 16:29 ` Alan Cox
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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