Re: Should PAGE_CACHE_SIZE be discarded?

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Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> It can be pretty well any power of 2 from PAGE_SIZE upwards, with
> compound pages. None of the filesystems should really care at all.
> It's not even a new concept, hugetlbfs uses HPAGE_SIZE...

Ummm... The filesystem has to care.  If the VFS/VM says 'fill this page' you
do need to know how big the page is or whether it's even actually several
pages.

David
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