From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com (penguin.e-mind.com [195.223.140.120]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA06941 for ; Thu, 20 May 1999 13:25:07 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 19:12:14 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: Q: PAGE_CACHE_SIZE? In-Reply-To: <19990518170401.A3966@fred.muc.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Andi Kleen Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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 -- 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/