Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] Support for 1GB THP

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On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 10:32:52AM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > >  - Can we get rid of PAGE_CACHE_SIZE now?  Finally?  Pretty please?
> >
> > +1 :)
> 
> We have had grandiouse visions of being free of that particular set of
> chains for more than 10 years now. Sadly nothing really was that appealing
> and the current state of THP support is not that encouraging as well. We
> rather go with static huge page support to have more control over how
> memory is laid out for a process.

With Kirill's fault-around code in place, I think it delivers all or most
of the benefits promised by increasing PAGE_CACHE_SIZE.
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