linux-kernel - Re: Efficient Use of the Page Cache with 64 KB Pages

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Date:	Tue, 19 Sep 2006 21:29:17 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
cc:	Sandeep Kumar <sandeepksinha@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, shaggy@...tin.ibm.com
Subject: Re: Efficient Use of the Page Cache with 64 KB Pages

On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Tony Luck wrote:

> But memory usage with a 64K page size can get out of hand (especially
> if you have an application that uses a lot of small files).  Dave Kleikamp's
> tail pages would help make 64K page size more generally palatable.

Sure but there is no need for something like that on IA32 since the 
hardware does not support more than 4k.

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