Re: Implementing NVMHCI...

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue Apr 14 2009 - 03:22:30 EST


Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> You absolutely do _not_ want to manage memory in 16kB chunks (or 64kB for
> your example!).

AFAIK at least for user visible anonymous memory Windows uses 64k
chunks. At least that is what Cygwin's mmap exposes. I don't know
if it does the same for disk cache.

-Andi
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