Re: [patch 00/14] Page cache cleanup in anticipation of LargeBlocksize support

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Thu Jun 14 2007 - 17:37:42 EST


On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:

> We want the 100% case.

Yes that is what we intend to do. Universal support for larger blocksize.
I.e. your desktop filesystem will use 64k page size and server platforms
likely much larger. fsck times etc etc are becoming an issue for desktop
systems given the capacities and lockinhg becomes an issue the more
multicore your desktops become.

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