Re: Subpages (was: Page Colouring)

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> 
> I took a stab at implementing subpages some time ago in 2.4 and got it mostly 
> working but not quite bootable.  I did find out roughly how invasive the 
> patch is, which is: not very, unless I've overlooked something major.  I'll 
> get busy on a 2.6 prototype, and of course I'll listen attentively for 
> reasons why this plan won't work.

Ah, ok. I thought it was further along than that.

If so, let's consider that possibility a more long-range plan - it is 
independent of just making PAGE_CACHE_SIZE be bigger.

		Linus
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