Re: [PATCH 0/3] fs, mm: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros

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On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 12:29:34PM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Mar 2016, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> 
> > We do have two page sizes in the page cache. It's the only option to get
> > transparent huge pages transparent.
> 
> Should then not PAGE_CACHE_SIZE take a page parameter and return the
> correct page size?

Why? What would you achieve by this?

We already have a way to find out size of page: compoun_order() or
hpage_nr_pages().

And not in every place where PAGE_CACHE_SIZE is used we have corresponding
struct page.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov

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