Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:07:19 +0300 | From | Avi Kivity <> | Subject | Re: Implementing NVMHCI... |
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Andi Kleen wrote: > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes: > >> You absolutely do _not_ want to manage memory in 16kB chunks (or 64kB for >> your example!). >> > > AFAIK at least for user visible anonymous memory Windows uses 64k > chunks. At least that is what Cygwin's mmap exposes. I don't know > if it does the same for disk cache. >
I think that's just the region address and size granularity (as in vmas). For paging they still use the mmu page size.
-- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain.
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