Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754558AbZDNHW3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:22:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751805AbZDNHWT (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:22:19 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:49883 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751327AbZDNHWS (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:22:18 -0400 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Avi Kivity , Alan Cox , Szabolcs Szakacsits , Grant Grundler , Linux IDE mailing list , LKML , Jens Axboe , Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: Implementing NVMHCI... From: Andi Kleen References: <20090412091228.GA29937@elte.hu> <20090412162018.6c1507b4@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <49E213AE.4060506@redhat.com> <49E2DC96.6090407@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:22:13 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Linus Torvalds's message of "Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:10:40 -0700 (PDT)") Message-ID: <874owr8ztm.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 626 Lines: 17 Linus Torvalds writes: > > You absolutely do _not_ want to manage memory in 16kB chunks (or 64kB for > your example!). AFAIK at least for user visible anonymous memory Windows uses 64k chunks. At least that is what Cygwin's mmap exposes. I don't know if it does the same for disk cache. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/