Re: Implementing NVMHCI...

[Avi Kivity]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
>   

I think that's just the region address and size granularity (as in 
vmas).  For paging they still use the mmu page size.

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