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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@sonera.fi>
Cc: pnilesh@in.ibm.com, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: page->offset
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 21:34:36 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0004132133410.9980-100000@maclaurin.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20000413090746.R13396@mea.tmt.tele.fi>

On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Matti Aarnio wrote:

>	Scaled with PAGE SIZE.

PAGE_CACHE_SIZE

>	Reason for going to this has been (among others) to get
>	coherency into the page cache so that there won't be
>	differently aligned copies of same byte range in the memory.

Very right. Other strong reason was to avoid long long with LFS.

Andrea

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  reply	other threads:[~2000-04-13 19:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-04-13  4:53 page->offset pnilesh
2000-04-13  6:07 ` page->offset Matti Aarnio
2000-04-13 19:34   ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2000-04-13  9:59 ` page->offset Stephen C. Tweedie
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2000-04-13 11:19 page->offset pnilesh
2000-04-12 13:04 page->offset pnilesh
2000-04-12 14:45 ` page->offset Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-04-12 15:29 ` page->offset Eric W. Biederman
2000-04-12 10:07 page->offset pnilesh
2000-04-12 11:06 ` page->offset Stephen C. Tweedie

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