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SubjectRe: Change PAGE_SIZE from minimum 4k to 12k
On Tue 2017-05-16 11:27:08, Kevin McKinney wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Would it be possible to have a custom block device driver read/write
> in increments of 12k instead of reading/writing data in 4k increments?
> In other words, I would like to change the default page size on a
> x86_64 platform (4.4.0 kernel) from 4k to 12k as the minimum page
> size? I understand I may have negative performance due to
> fragmentation. Any help would be appreciated.
>
> If this is the wrong mailing list, please let me know the right one to use.

I won't say "no" but ammount of work neccessary is likely measured in
man-years. Plus, hardware page size _is_ 4KB.

Pavel
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