On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:19:49 -0700 (PDT) Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The page cache handling in the various layers is significantly > > simplified which reduces maintenance cost. > > How on earth can the *addition* of variable pagecache size simplify the > existing code?
Because the page cache code is full of manual shifts and adds. Its a mess. Adding appropriate accessors simplifies the code. I took that opportunity to slide in an address space parameter into the accessors which allows to have sets of accessors for single page size and multi page size configurations. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
