On Mon, 29 Oct 2012 07:49:42 -0700 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Because there's no reason to believe that '9' is in any way a worse > random number than something page-shift-related, is there? 9 is much better than PAGE_SHIFT. PAGE_SIZE can vary by a factor of 16, depending on config. Everyone thinks 4k, and tests only for that. There's potential for very large performance and behavior changes when their code gets run on a 64k PAGE_SIZE machine. -- 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>