Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:26:40 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3 |
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On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:19:49 -0700 (PDT) Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> The page cache handling in the various layers is significantly > simplified which reduces maintenance cost.
How on earth can the *addition* of variable pagecache size simplify the existing code?
What cleanups are in this patchset which cannot be made *without* the addition of variable pagecache size?
> Dave, where are we with the performance tests?
Well yes.
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