Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 May 2007 00:19:05 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [rfc] increase struct page size?! |
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On Fri, 18 May 2007 06:08:54 +0200 Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> wrote:
> Many batch operations on struct page are completely random,
But they shouldn't be: we should aim to place physically contiguous pages into logically contiguous pagecache slots, for all the reasons we discussed.
If/when that happens, there will be a *lot* of locality of reference against the pageframes in a lot of important codepaths.
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