Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: File BlockSize | Date | Tue, 12 Feb 2002 22:25:48 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > This sounds like fairly severe memory fragmentation, which seems more > > worrisome to me than blocksize constraints. Should I look into that? > > Sorry for being dense, but I don't see why an 8 kB block would > need to occupy 2 contiguous pages in ram.
Because all the kernel code knows that you can add a constant to the base of a buffer to get anywhere in that block. Also the one buffer per two page case isnt handled either
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