linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 4/8] Enhance fallback functions in libs to support higher order pages

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704191814230.14874@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:15:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	David Chinner <dgc@....com>
cc:	Adam Litke <aglitke@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	Paul Jackson <pj@....com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 4/8] Enhance fallback functions in libs to support higher
 order pages

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, David Chinner wrote:

> I think PAGE_CACHE_SIZE is a redundant define with these
> modifications.  The page cache size in now variable and it is based
> on a multiple of PAGE_SIZE. Hence I suggest that PAGE_CACHE_SIZE and
> it's derivitives should be made to go away completely with this
> change.

Ultimately we should do so but for right now lets stay on the least-
intrusive and as-clean-as-possible road.
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