Re: Q: PAGE_CACHE_SIZE?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 25 May 1999 17:29:23 +0100 (BST)

> > 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.

For large amounts of memory on fast boxes you want a higher page size. Some
vendors even pick page size based on memory size at boot up.

Alan

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