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. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>