Re: [rfc] increase struct page size?!
From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri May 18 2007 - 03:21:48 EST
On Fri, 18 May 2007 06:08:54 +0200 Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Many batch operations on struct page are completely random,
But they shouldn't be: we should aim to place physically contiguous pages
into logically contiguous pagecache slots, for all the reasons we
discussed.
If/when that happens, there will be a *lot* of locality of reference
against the pageframes in a lot of important codepaths.
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