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Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 21:34:36 +0200 (CEST)
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Subject: Re: page->offset
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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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