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    SubjectRe: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3
    On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:

    > But I maintain that the end result is better than the fragmentation
    > based approach. A lot of people don't actually want a bigger page
    > cache size, because they want efficient internal fragmentation as
    > well, so your radix-tree based approach isn't really comparable.

    Me? Radix tree based approach? That approach is in the kernel. Do not
    create a solution where there is no problem. If we do not want to
    support large blocksizes then lets be honest and say so instead of
    redefining what a block is. The current approach is fine if one is
    satisfied with scatter gather and the VM overhead coming with handling
    these pages. I fail to see what any of what you are proposing would add to
    that.

    Lets be clear here: A bigger page cache size if its just one is not
    useful. 4k page size is a good size for many files on the system and
    chaning it would break the binary format.. I just do not want it to be the
    only one because different usage scenarios may require differnet page
    sizes for optimal application performance.

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