Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 17 Jun 2007 19:08:41 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [patch 00/14] Page cache cleanup in anticipation of Large Blocksize support |
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On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, Matt Mackall wrote:
> Is it? Last I looked it had reverted to handing out reverse-contiguous > pages.
I thought that was fixed? Bill Irwin was working on it.
But the contiguous pages usually only work shortly after boot. After awhile memory gets sufficiently scrambled that the coalescing in the I/O layer becomes ineffective. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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