On Thu 05-01-17 13:30:10, Khalid Aziz wrote: [...] > It is very tempting to restrict tags to PAGE_SIZE granularity since it makes > code noticeably simpler and that is indeed going to be the majority of > cases. Sooner or later somebody would want to use multiple tags per page > though. I didn't get to read the patch throughly yet but I am really confused by this statement. The api is mprotect based which makes it ineherently PAGE_SIZE granular. How do you want to achieve cache line granularity with this API? And I would really vote for simplicity first... Subpage granularity sounds way too tricky... -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
