Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Q: PAGE_CACHE_SIZE? | Date | Tue, 25 May 1999 17:29:23 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > 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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